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TIL a group led by a real estate agent and a luxury car dealer managed to break into an airport and stole €38,000,000 worth of diamonds being loaded onto a plane, without firing a single shot and without plane passengers knowing what happened.

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9wpwD TIL of Peter Bergmann, aka the Irish Somerton man, a mysterious man who was found dead on a beach in Sligo, Ireland in 2009 with no ID, no documentation and no money, who had given a fake name and address at the hotel he was staying. He has never been identified.
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