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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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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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Emergency Plane Farts
In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing and an FBI investigation.
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Missing Plane
In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. Despite a worldwide search, it still has not been found.
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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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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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Self-Trolling
A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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Phantom Barber
In 1942, there was a man in Mississippi called the Phantom Barber who would break into people's houses at night and cut their hair.
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