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TIL the modern ankle monitor used to track prisoners was invented by a judge named Jack Love. An avid comic book fan, he was inspired after the villain Kingpin places a radar cuff on Spider-Man to monitor his whereabouts. This fictional device gave him the idea for the real-life tracking technology.

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TIL the modern ankle monitor used to track prisoners was invented by a judge named Jack Love. An avid comic book fan, he was inspired after the villain Kingpin places a radar cuff on Spider-Man to monitor his whereabouts. This fictional device gave him the idea for the real-life tracking technology.

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