In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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