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TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.

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