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TIL of the August 26, 1980 Harvey’s Lake Tahoe casino bombing. 3 men in maintenance uniforms rolled in a device covered in cloth labeled IBM to a 2nd story empty office with a note demanding $3 million. The FBI was forced to detonate it after failing to defuse it

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