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TIL that after 9/11, On January 5, 2002, Charles Bishop, a high-school student from Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and purposefully crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida, killing no one but himself in the process

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