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Friday, July 23, 2004

Gimli Glider 

An unexpected treasure from daily visits to Wikipedia: today is the 21st anniversary of the Gimli Glider accident. Stories about metric/imperial conversion screw-ups don't come any more hilarious or frightening than this.

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