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I’d have to say Jury Nullification would be one and especially so because mentioning it or admitting that you know of it can get you pulled off an American jury.

It’s the idea that even if a person is brought to trial and is guilty of an action that is legitimately classified as a crime, if you and your fellow jurors disagree, you can still find the plaintiff “not guilty”.

For example: marijuana is illegal on the federal level and some state levels and if someone were in court on charges of possession of marijuana and nothing more, regardless what the law says or how the judge feels, you and your jurors can vote to find this person innocent so they don’t face the legal consequences for possession.

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How to pass/invalidate a lie-detector test.

They are not considered admissible evidence in court (but the criminal justice system still use them to a degree..), and they can be interpreted with intentional bias, so I think it's fine to share.

One of my psychology professors told me that if you hide something like a sewing needle in your shoe's insole, you can ever so slightly apply pressure so that the poke causes a physiological spike. They monitor for movement, so it has to be very minute. The goal is to do this on every control question so that they cannot establish a baseline and have to give up.

Anything you see on LockPickingLawyer.

You can infinitely go around and around a roundabout or a clover leaf interchange.

Juries can nullify any charge based on their own discretion.

It's possible to bioengineer yeast to turn sugar into morphine.

The Anarchist's Cookbook is full of bad information, you should use the US Improvised Munitions guide instead

There are free private, and generally better-working versions of almost every software program. Including, operating systems, social media, email, telephone, etc

You can resist an unlawful arrest. But good luck with that in the real world.

The invisible tracking dots in almost every printer.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

You can legally create, own, and use your own flamethrower in the majority of the US.

How to make controlled substances.

It's not illegal for anyone to know, it is also technically legal to make and possess if you have the correct licensing for some substances, but it is illegal to synthesize them.

That you can leave the interrogation room any time you want if you're being questioned for a crime.

Making amateur rockets and pipe bombs are basically identical -- for a rocket, one end of the pipe is open. There's a vibrant amateur rockets community nevertheless.

You can request your trial to be done by mail, yes this is legal and if you truly want to get out of a speeding ticket or any other tickets or fine. Just do it the trial by mail and always postpone it for a greater chance of the officer just letting you win it. The source for all my information is from a lawyer, also check your local laws or state laws about this, thank you maggoty as it depends.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwL6P2bc2s

Ethyl Mercaptan, used as the warning odor for natural gas/propane, is not regulated.

Tails OS. I went to search what it was and read the Wikipedia article. Guess I'm on a watch-list now, cause of my dumb curiosity lol

From Wikipedia

In 2014 Das Erste reported that the NSA's XKeyscore surveillance system sets threat definitions for people who search for Tails using a search engine or visit the Tails website

Probably either research chemicals or jailbreaking tech.

As for the former I fell down a rabbit hole reading about research chemicals on some subreddit and hearing people's reports.

Jailbreaking doesn't feel as illegal, I'm not in Japan, but it makes me feel like a badass early 2000s hacker helping my friends with their 3DSs and PS3s and seeing their reactions.

Nice try, FBI

Just knowing the history of policing feels illegal. How they normalized this vile paramilitary - essentially institutionalized fascism - right from the start in the UK and the US sure as hell isn't something they will ever show you on Law & Order.

How to make drugs.

How to make explosives.

"1001 ways to kill a man."

How to construct systems which are used for civil applications but can easily be turned into weapons.

Or the good old question of science and responsibility: do you use nuclear fission to create energy or to kill an enormous amount of people?

Teaching crabs to read

Knowing how to make explosive whether chemical or otherwise