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TIL In 1968 a car, transporting 300M Yen (9M USD) was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming that the car had been rigged with explosives. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the ‘cop’ just drove away. The robbery remains unsolved.

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