It Was Their First Date—and He Made Her the Getaway Driver

A Misunderstanding

Police were convinced that Shelby had been in on the scheme and charged her with being an accessory after the fact. Shelby was put under arrest and held on $250,000 bail. She continued to insist that she hadn't agreed to be Christopher's getaway driver and that he was essentially a stranger to her...

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The More You Know

  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • Agatha Christie said she came up with many of her book plots while sitting in her bathtub while eating apples.
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