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TIL in 1978 thieves broke into the Bank of New South Wales & used an electro-magnetic diamond-tipped drill to steal $1.7m from a safe. 25 detectives from 3 states failed to find them because they left "no clues, no mess, no trace." It's the biggest bank heist in Australia's history & it's unsolved.

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