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TIL of Joseph Trombino, a Brinks truck driver who survived the infamous 1981 Brink's robbery perpertrated by the father of current San Francisco District Attornery Chesa Boudin and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, only to die at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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