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TIL People Used to Drink Dr Pepper HOT with Lemon!

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Avkn TIL in 1965 a Boeing 707 had an engine blow up during flight and take 25 feet of wing with it. The plane made a safe emergency landing. Boeing then sent a second plane to pick up the stranded passengers and the front landing gear of that plane collapsed on the runway.
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