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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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    In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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    Pretty Boy Floyd
    Pretty Boy Floyd
    A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd reportedly destroyed mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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