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TIL in 1992 an inflatable bouncy castle took flight with 5 children inside. To save them, a 21 year-old man grabbed one of the trailing ropes, climbed up to the castle 15 metres in the air and pulled each child out, before losing his grip and falling through the canvas roof of a dodgems tent.

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