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TIL that in 2001 a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address on it, which floated 140 miles and landed in the backyard of a house where also lived a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton. The coincidences of the event only grow as you read more into it.

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