Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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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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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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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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