TIL that the 1972 'D.B. Cooper' hijacking cash had serial numbers recorded, but the FBI only publicly released a tiny fraction of them.

I was reading an old FBI document dump and saw they logged over 10,000 serial numbers from the ransom money, but have only ever confirmed about 300 of them were part of the official public list, so where's the rest of that data and why keep it quiet?

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the_fiona24d ago

Classic FBI move... hiding the good stuff. Makes you wonder what else they're sitting on.

zara_hunt25d ago

My cousin found one of those bills in an old toolbox last year.

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wesley8012d ago

Finding old bills like your cousin did really makes you think. I used to believe they just printed money and that was it. But seeing one of those old bills, with different colors and designs, it hits different. It shows how much they change things without telling us. Makes me question what else gets swapped out quietly over the years.