FACTOID # 94: In pure number terms, more crimes are committed in America than in any other nation. The same goes for burglaries, car thefts, rapes and assaults.
 
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Look up Fiver in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • Fiver is most commonly a slang term used to refer to a denomination of currency, most notably:
  • Fiver is a term for Zaydi Shiite Muslims, who disagree with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
  • Fiver is the mascot of T G I F F
  • Camp Fiver (named after the character) is a summer camp in Poolville, New York, was founded by philanthropist Tom Tucker. [1]
  • A fiver, in modern charity circles, is a person who gives five percent of their income and/or five hours a week of their time to charity - considered an easier goal than the ten percent tithe the biblical Moses asked for in the book of Deuteronomy.
  • A fiver is a short written parody of a television episode, movie, play, or video game. [3]
  • The Fiver is a weekly humorous football magazine for members of the T G I F F

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Fiver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (212 words)
Camp Fiver (named after the character), a summer camp in New York, founded by philanthropist Tom Tucker.
Fiver, in modern charity, a person who gives five percent of their income and/or five hours a week of their time to charity - considered an easier goal than the ten percent tithe the biblical Moses asked for in the book of Deuteronomy.
Fiver, a math game is played on a 5x5 grid, distantly related to Conway's Game of Life.
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Traditional London cab drivers are required to go through a rigorous years-long training course which includes hypnogogic instruction in the names and locations of every street in greater London.
Mini-cab drivers, on the other hand, are by and large some guy who just showed up with an unexpired driver's license, and haven't the foggiest clue where even the most basic nearby landmarks are, but they will still promise to take you there for a fiver.
The main difference between cabs and mini-cabs is that the former will rip you off, whereas the latter will rip you off not quite as badly, but with the added thrill of the remote possibility that you may wake up some hours later minus a kidney.
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