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TIL: In March, a Tokyo Man rappelled down the side of a building using a rope to break into a trading card store on the 6th floor to steal 80 Pokémon and Yu Gi Oh cards worth a million yen. He claimed it was to pay off a debt. He was foiled by security cameras.

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