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TIL Sadly, Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in Superman '78, committed suicide with drugs and alcohol in May of 2018. Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade died by suicide in June 2018, but Kidder's death was not ruled suicide until August.

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