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TIL A 2 billion yen run on a Japanese bank in 1973 was traced back to a casual remark about the danger of working in a bank during a conversation between three female high school students.

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E1Jjd TIL there was a press event from 2001 where over twenty military, intelligence, government and scientific witnesses came forward and discovered at least 57 extraterrestrial species.