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TIL about an unusual series of events in Buenos Aires in 1988, in which three people and a poodle died. First a poodle fell 13 stories killing a woman, both dying instantly. Seeing this, a man rushed to the scene but was hit by a bus. Another witness had a heart attack, dying enroute to a hospital.

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