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24: The coins buried with Sinatra

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Frank Sinatra's Life Story

Frank Sinatra kept dimes on his person in case he ever had to call someone to make a call to free them. Or if he was kidnapped himself or anything like that, kidnappers use the payphones to communicate so he always kept the dimes for that reason. "I do like how these are based in real life stories," says CNN's Tom Charity.

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