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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] Dwayne Johnson was arrested 8 to 9 by the time he was 17 after being involved in a theft ring.

  Actors, Crimesource

• [Crime fact 3] Gary Bolton from the UK made £45 Million pounds selling bomb detection devices. He claimed his devices costing upwards of £10,000 each could find explosives, drugs, cash, tobacco and even people at distances of up to three miles. It was nothing more than a retractable antenna mounted on a plastic box. It had no scientific basis and did absolutely nothing for governments around the world. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison and had to pay a fine of £1.5 Million.

  Crime, Finance, Weaponssource

• [Crime fact 4] In 2007, Robert Pickton was convicted for a string of murders. He mainly targeted prostitutes in Canada. Though he is serving prison time for 6 murders, he once confided to an undercover police officer that he had killed 49. He said he wanted to make it 50, but got sloppy and was caught. He owned a pig farm and investigators found that he had probably fed to his pigs the bodies of several women. There was also evidence that he mixed the human flesh with pork, and canned it before selling it to the public.

  Crime, Deathsource

• [Crime fact 5] A depressed Manchester teen used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, and after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history to be charged with inciting their own murder.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 6] There was a Macedonian journalist/crime reporter named Vlado Taneski who was also a serial killer. He reported on his own crimes and eventually got caught because he wrote articles on the murders with information that had not yet been released and only the killer would have known.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 7] The U.S. Supreme Court has only tried one criminal case in its history, a 1906 contempt of court case against a Tennessee sheriff who ignored court rulings for the rights of a black man and allowed a mob to lynch him.

  Crime, Lawsuitsource

• [Crime fact 8] Jurors can legally return a 'not guilty' verdict if they believe the law is unjust regardless of whether or not the defendant actually committed the crime through a process called 'jury nullification' but judges rarely inform juries of this power.

  Crime, Lawsource

• [Crime fact 9] After the Salem Witch Trials, the town realized that they had made a mistake and compensated the families of the people they had convicted. More than 200 people had been accused of witchcraft, and 20 of them had been executed.

  Crime, Miscsource

• [Crime fact 10] In 1695, Pirate Henry Every captured treasure worth tens of millions of pounds or dollars in today’s money. He raided a convoy of Grand Mughal vessels making the annual pilgrimage from India to Mecca. Every then disappeared and neither he nor his treasure was ever captured.

  Crime, Mystery, Peoplesource

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