Law and Crime Facts

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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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    In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
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    Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
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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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    North Korea Cannabis
    North Korea Cannabis
    The only country where cannabis is completely legal and du jure is North Korea.
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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 the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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