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.
In August of 1972, John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with another, younger man, a near stranger he'd met in a bar, Sal Naturile. The two tried to rob the bank, but things went awry, and a 14-hour standoff with the police ensued. Over the course of this ordeal, Wojtowicz made it known that he was robbing the bank to get money for his male lover's sex change operation. The story caught the attention of screenwriter Frank Piersonmore.