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• [Crime fact 1] A 90-year-old man named Jay Leone in Greenbrae, California was shot in the head by a burglar. Not only did he survive, but said: "F*ck you, you son of a b*tch. Now it's my turn" and then shot the burglar three times in the abdomen.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 2] Calvin Coolidge once awoke to a burglar in his hotel room. He talked the burglar out of robbing him, loaned him $32, and told him how to leave without being arrested.

  Crime, Presidentsource

• [Crime fact 3] The Pink Panthers was a group of international jewel thieves, who committed 341 robberies in 35 different countries, and successfully got away with nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of jewels for 15 years until they were caught in 2018 in Serbia.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 4] In 1927, a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus was responsible for the death of 6 people during his robbery and getaway in a small Texas town. When he was caught and thrown in jail, nearly 2,000 people showed up, pushed past the guards, dragged him out of the jail and hanged him.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 5] Dennis Rader, a Kansas serial killer, a.k.a. the BTK Killer, installed alarms as a part of his job, and many of his clients had booked the company to stop BTK from ever entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them. He was finally caught after sending a 1.44MB diskette to the police - which they told him was untraceable - containing metadata from a deleted MS Word file.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 6] It’s not a crime to escape prison in Germany and Belgium, because according to their constitution freedom is a basic human right.

  Crime, Prisonsource

• [Crime fact 7] In 2011, Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus made it illegal to applaud in public. Consequently, the 2011 Ig Nobel Peace prize was given to the Belarus State Police for arresting a one-armed man for clapping.

  Crime, Honorsource

• [Crime fact 8] Kansas serial killer (Dennis Rader), the BTK Killer (Bind, Torture, Kill), installed alarms as a part of his job, and many of his clients had booked the company to stop BTK from ever entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 9] Burying the dead has been illegal in San Francisco since 1901. Because space was limited and real estate at a premium even back then, the city outlawed burials and moved all cemeteries to neighbor Colma, California.

  Crime, Deathsource

• [Crime fact 10] Someone, probably not the founder, Mark Hughes, figured out that ephedrine was an amazing drug. It was legal in the 80s, found in a Chinese plant called Ma Huang. It is a stimulant. He himself, and friends found that it was a really potent aid in weight loss, helped give a strong perception of energy boost and vitality. You could say that it is a chemical analog of amphetamine. So, he had this great product, Green Herbalife, and he was selling it out of the trunk of his car. It really worked. The customers were actually becoming very big fans of the product. Some would even say that they were addicted to it. Mark didn't want to hire salesmen, so he offered a partnership buy-in scheme. The customers who loved the product were some of his best customer, spreading the word and demanding more and more ephedrine. At some point, recruiting sales help become just as profitable as selling the drug itself.

  Corporation, Crimesource

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