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TIL that a Pilot in 1990 was sucked out of the plane window for 20 minutes and survived.

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nWred TIL that there is an open-source Python package called "Dulwich", and why it's named after an area in London: It's a pure Python version of Git, and the name comes from a Monty Python sketch, where the characters Mr. and Mrs. Git live and occasionally attend to cocktail parties.
6LQZ TIL that in 1971, when Frank Sinatra couldn’t get a ringside ticket to Ali & Frazier’s “Fight of the Century”, he managed to get a press pass to shoot photos for LIFE magazine instead.
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