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• [Crime fact 1]  Wig theft was a problem in 18th-Century England, with thieves using children, dogs, and monkeys to snatch the expensive wigs of wealthy people on the street.

  Crime, Misc, People source

• [Crime fact 2]  In 2013, after receiving a warning from the FBI on his PC, Jay Matthew Riley turned himself into police for possessing child pornography. The warning was fake and generated by a worm that had infected his computer.

  Crime, People source

• [Crime fact 3]  Operation Northwoods was a plan proposed by CIA to commit genuine acts of terrorism on the U.S. soil, going as far as paint MiG jets in Cuban colors and markings to conduct some of these attacks and blame it on Cuba, to create public support for a war against the nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro. John F Kennedy rejected this proposal and removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

  Crime, Government source

• [Crime fact 4]  Ambulances in Canada have equipment capable of automatically changing traffic signals

  Crime, Transport source

• [Crime fact 5]  Tupac Shakur once stopped to break up an altercation and ended up shooting two police officers, one in the leg and one in the buttocks. The charges on him were dropped after it was discovered that the officers were intoxicated and had stolen weapons from the police evidence room.

  Actors, Crime source

• [Crime fact 6]  In 2013, a 17-year old kid named Tyler Hadley murdered his parents and hid their bodies in a locked bedroom so he could throw a huge house party.

  Crime, People source

• [Crime fact 7]  In 1996, the infamous serial killer 'The Yorkshire Ripper' (Peter Sutcliffe) was almost strangled to death in custody, before being saved by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka 'The Stockwell Strangler'.

  Crime, People source

• [Crime fact 8]  “Foldering” is a form of covert communication technique which uses emails saved as drafts in an account accessed by multiple people. It poses an extra challenge to detect because the messages are never sent. It has been used by Al Qaeda and drug cartels, amongst others.

  Crime, Technology source

• [Crime fact 9]  David Parker Ray set up a sex dungeon and kidnapped women to be basically living sex dolls for himself and his wife and occasionally, his own dogs. Then he washed them up, brainwashed them with a combination of drugs to induce hypnosis and make sure they don't remember anything and let them loose. One of the women he kidnapped had it in her mind that her experiences were just nightmares until the FBI came knocking on her door. That in and of itself sounds super disturbing until you read the transcript of the tape he made for his victims. (Warning: Source below is extremely disturbing. Do not click at work or in public)

  Crime, Humanbody source

• [Crime fact 10]  The British Secret Service (James Bond's employer) really can issue a "license to kill". It's called a Class Seven authorization and must be approved by the MI6 agent's superiors all the way up to the Foreign Minister.

  Crime, People source

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