In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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