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TIL In 2010 a passenger secretly brought a crocodile onboard a plane. It escaped and everyone ran to the back of the plane which led to an imbalance and a crash killing 19 of the 20 onboard.

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7rZgP TIL a British parrot went missing and turned up four years later in California, minus an accent and speaking Spanish. Instead of taking his pet back, the original owner let the adopted family keep it.
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