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This ought to keep you scamps out of trouble for a while...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/facts.html

Here's a sample from the site:

MILLION-TO-ONE

Around midnight on June 5, 1944, Private C. Hillman, of Manchester, Connecticut, serving with the US 101st Airborne Division, was winging his way to Normandy in a C-47 transport plane. Just before the jump, Pte. Hillman carried out a final inspection of his parachute.

He was surprised to see that the chute had been packed by the Pioneer Parachute Company of Connecticut where his mother worked part time as an inspector.

He was further surprised when he saw on the inspection tag, the initials of his own mother!


 
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