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TIL in 2007, a man in Allen Park, Michigan built a working guillotine and then used it to behead himself.

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loomV TIL that actor Joaquin Phoenix had an older brother named River, also an actor, who tragically died of a speedball overdose outside a Hollywood nightclub on Halloween 1993. He was only 23 years old.
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