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TIL of a WWII wedding dress that is made of the parachute material that saved the groom's life. Maj Claude Hensinger was a bomber pilot flying over Japan in 1944 when his B-29's engine caught fire and he and his crew were forced to evacuate the plane, doing so with this parachute.

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