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TIL The Fort Knox gold reserve is guarded by the United States Mint Police. It has its own emergency electric and water supply and the land surrounding it is a mine field
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This is the Lockpicking Lawyer and today we have something unique…
Have you not seen Goldfinger?
But Hans Gruber’s brother already robbed it.
Man 147 million ounces is a lot of gold…if I were a security guard working there, I would guard the 130 million ounces of gold with my life!!
And their uniforms are a crisp light green
All to keep people from finding out it’s empty.
The locals around there have said it’s been empty for years. They work in and around the vaults.
What is the purpose of this now that there’s no gold standard?