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TIL A bank robber hired decoys on Craigslist and escaped down a creek on a Inner tube

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dDlbQ TIL that ATMs are robbed with explosives. Criminals fill machines with propane or acetylene then ignite the gas, or use external bombs. Germany (where 60% of attacks succeed) is Europe's #1 target; landlords don't like to lease to banks with ATMs, because blowing them up endangers other tenants.
694bX TIL that when the "haunted" Capitol Hill soda machine disappeared, a note was left that it "went for a walk"
xVexb TIL that at age 35, Harrison Ford fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola when a studio executive, testing actresses for new film, asked him to help out by reading the lines written for the male lead. The film was "Star Wars".
v1J9R TIL the province of Alberta, Canada is the only place in the world where there are zero rats. Since the 1950s there has been a war between rats and the Albertan government. There is even a rat sighting hotline.
rRDby TIL Ken & Barbie were originally modeled after their founder's children. So Ken & Barbie were kind of...siblings.