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TIL A woman in Australia discovered she had an unlimited bank overdraft and went on an 11-month $4.6 million spending spree buying designer handbags, clothes, jewellery, phones and a vacuum cleaner. The bank discovered the withdrawals and the woman arrested, but all charges were later dropped

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