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TIL Pedro Rodrigues Filho, one of Brazil's most prolific killers. Having killed between 71-100+ criminals as a vigilante (including his father), he was given a the maximum sentence in Brazil of 30 years. Filho now has a successful YouTube career with 250k subs

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