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Jun 24, 2020

TIL In 1989 two brothers flew ultralight planes over the Berlin Wall into East Germany to rescue a brother they'd left behind when they escaped years earlier. They landed at a park inside the DDR, picked up their brother, and flew back to West Berlin in less than 20 minutes.

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Sep 26, 2019

TIL about Inky the Octopus's great escape from New Zealand's National Aquarium. One night he squished through a hole in the tank, slid across the floor and squeezed through a pipe into the ocean.

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Sep 10, 2019

TIL that in Germany, and some other countries, there's no punishment for escaping prison. Their law consider it's a basic human instinct to want to escape, so no extra time is added to the initial sentence if no other laws are broken in order to escape.

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Jun 12, 2019

TIL of Rosalynn McGinnis; She was kidnapped at the age of 12 by her stepfather and smuggled into Mexico, where she had 9 children fathered by her kidnapper. At the age of 32, 20 years after her kidnapping, her neighbors helped her and 8 of her children escape their captor and return to the U.S.

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Jun 01, 2019

TIL in 2016, an octopus named Inky mysteriously disappeared from New Zealand's National Aquarium. A wet trail later revealed he escaped his tank through a small hole, slid across the floor at night and squeezed his body through a pipe leading to the ocean.

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