When you get an order from Saddam Hussein, you do not discuss it.

That's a quote from an Iraqi bank official when reached for comment about the largest cash heist in world history.

He was explaining why they gave up a billion dollars without a fight.

Now, this was a bank robbery, but not like one you'd see in a movie.

Right before America invaded Iraq in 2003, Kusai Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son, rolled up to the Iraqi

Central Bank and told them Saddam sent him.

He loaded up $900 million in $100 U.S. bills

and another $100 million in euros, that's three tractor trailers full of cash, and dipped.

So about a billion U.S. dollars were stolen. I hate the word billion because it

flies over people's heads. That's a million million dollars. If you made a thousand dollars per hour

and started working 40 hours a week when the U.S. was founded over two centuries ago,

you'd be about halfway to a billion dollars now.

If you made $1,000 per hour working 40 hours a week with no vacation whatsoever,

you could make that much money in 480 years. A billion dollars stolen in two hours

with a letter from Saddam Hussein. If the threat of force is great enough. Force isn't necessary.

Today, we're going to talk about one of the most prolific thieves in nature.

The greatest pirate in the animal kingdom, the parasitic Jaeger.

Sterichoriris Paracidicus.

I'm Mackin.

This is species.

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