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TIL of Agnes Milowka, a renowned cave diver who filmed stunts for the movie Sanctum. Not long after filming a scene for the movie in which an extra air tank is left behind in order to squeeze through a tight cave passage, she died after doing the exact same thing in a real cave.

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