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TIL Tony Scott, director of the original 'Top Gun,' jumped to his death from a bridge in California in 2012, with his brother, famed director Ridley Scott, revealing Tony had been fighting cancer. However, a subsequent autopsy revealed that there was no trace of cancer in his system.

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