Random Law and Crime Facts

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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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

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In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.

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16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.

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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.

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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.

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In Finland, fines are income-based. In 2002, a Nokia executive received a US$103,000 speeding ticket.

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