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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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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In North Korea, you are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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