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TIL A crew on a plane once fought off a hijacker using techniques such as inverting the plane and flying at near-supersonic speed

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8e8WL TIL the term care package comes from an acronym; CARE, meaning the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe which sent packages of emergency supplies to European communities following WWII
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