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TIL about Joseph Trombino, a Brinks security guard who, after being shot multiple times in the famed armored car robbery of 1981, was almost killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and eventually lost his life during the 9/11 attacks while making a delivery in the North Tower.

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