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TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved

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