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TIL that Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once snuck out of a White House event, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore.

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GYe5G TIL in 2009, police in San Jose, California engaged in a 17-hour standoff with an empty house.
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