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TIL in 2013, an 11-year-old cancer patient on her way to a camp for children with serious illnesses was removed from her flight after misplacing her passport. Just before takeoff her passport was found in another passenger's backpack, and the plane unprecedentedly returned to the gate to pick her up

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