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TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.

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yVZmv TIL that a Korean cult predicted the rapture to occur on 12AM, October 28, 1992. Parishioners awaited transportation to heaven; some had quit their jobs or given away possessions. Mass suicides were feared. 10 minutes after 12AM, a boy shouted from inside: “Nothing is happening.”
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