As a result, eating 500 fewer calories a day leads to slightly less weight loss as time goes on, Dr Hall told Runner's World. Instead, over 12 months, a person will need to eat 7,000 calories to burn a pound of fat, he calculated. He added that few people seem to be able to keep losing weight after 12 months.
Central Bank of Iraq Robbery â $1 Billion. Iraq. In the opening hours of the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein ordered his son and a close advisor to cart off $1 billion dollars from the Central Bank of Iraq in what would become the largest bank heist in history.
Luckily, none have resulted in deaths. The Big Dig fiasco has been running for over 20 years -- and at the rate it's going will take another 20 years to unravel. Big Dig boosters claim it's America's largest-ever highway project, the Taj Mahal of tunnel systems. If so, it was designed by the Marx Brothers, built by the Three Stooges and managed by Willy Sutton.