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TIL about Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, which crashed after it was hijacked by three Ethiopian men who tried to get it to fly to Australia in hopes of getting asylum. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian ocean, leading to the deaths of 125 of the 175 people on board.

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