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TIL In 2003 a pizza delivery man seeming picked at random walked into a bank and calmly committed a robbery. when he tried to leave the police stopped him outside, the man said his neck bomb was on a timer and had to get somewhere to get that key that would unlock it. He didn’t make it

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