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TIL the airplane which was featured in The Dark Knight Rises’ plane scene actually crashed with no survirors a year after the film was released

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yye TIL that the founder of FedEx once saved the company by taking its last $5,000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Las Vegas.
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