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But... but... tracking packages is my primary form of entertainment these days! It's like watching a game of Pong in super-slow motion.

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In a day and a half it went from "out for delivery" to "an hour and a half away," then one day later it went to "we dunno," where it has been for 2 days.
 
He was also arrested twice and convicted once for violating the Mann Act. This was because he took two different white women he was seeing across state lines, and was accused of transporting them for immoral reasons. He was sentenced to a year in prison, fled to Europe and lived in exile for seven years. When he returned to America in 1920 he spent a year in Leavenworth. In 2018 he recieved a posthumous presidential pardon from President Trump after years of petitions being circulated.
 
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And 100 years ago, it really happened!

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Note that the guy on the wing has a gas can strapped to his back.

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First Aerial Refueling - HistoricWings.com :: A Magazine for Aviators, Pilots and Adventurers

Published on November 12, 2012 Things have come a long way over the years. No story illustrates that more clearly than the tale of Wesley May, Frank Hawks and Earl Daugherty who together achieved the world's first aerial refueling by manually transferring gasoline from one plane to another in...
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