In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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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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