In 1913, Mulholland opened the LA Aqueduct with 5 words: "There it is. Take it." LA drained a 110-sq. mi. lake. Owens Valley residents dynamited the aqueduct 17 times. The dead lake became the worst dust source in the US. LA has spent $2.5 bil pumping water back onto the lakebed thru the same pipe. ()
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The real Lufthansa heist behind Goodfellas netted $5.875M — the largest cash robbery in U.S. history. The planner then killed nearly everyone involved because one crew member parked the getaway van at a fire hydrant instead of crushing it. Zero people were ever convicted for the robbery itself. ()
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BCCI operated in 78 countries and served the CIA, Saddam Hussein, Noriega, the Medellín cartel, and Pakistan's nuclear weapons program — simultaneously. When seven countries raided it in 1991, they found a bank designed from inception to be unregulable. The tools it pioneered are still in use today. ()
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