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TIL One day, Seth MacFarlane woke up with a hangover. His travel agent told him his flight was at 8:15 AM when his flight was actually at 7:45 AM. Seth missed his flight. This day was September 11th, 2001, and this flight was American Airlines Flight #11.

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