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TIL Jason Derek Brown shot and killed an armored car guard outside a movie theater. The FBI says he fled with $56,000. Brown resembles a surfer dude and bears such a striking resemblance to actor Sean Penn that the FBI twice mistakenly apprehended the actor’s body double.

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