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TIL of Thomas Fitzpatrick, who drunkenly stole a plane from New Jersey and landed on the street outside the bar in NYC where a patron didn't believe that he could get from New Jersey to the city in 15 minutes. Two years later he did it again after another bar patron didn't believe his first story.

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