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Everyone says their money’s gone with the wind, but this time, it really happened. An Arkansas man was cleaning up after the state’s most recent bout of tornado weather when he found a solitary check, neatly folded and lying on the ground. The cashed check, dated from 1971 and worth a whopping $1.50, was originally from a town fifty miles away, apparently a monthly payment on a newspaper subscription. While the check does bear the names of each person in the transaction, no one has come forward yet to claim the document, which was still crisp and dry, without any damage from the storm.

There’s finally a replacement for the old ‘check-in-the-mail’ routine; the check is in the tornado. Next up: the tornado ate my homework!

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