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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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to smuggle 10lbs of Marijuana during his 20th Birthday.
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