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TIL a Wells Fargo employee named Denise Ann Prudhomme was found dead at her desk 4 days after she had last scanned her badge to get into work. She was discovered when another employee walking by noticed that she was "slumped over" in her chair. Her death was ruled "a natural, sudden cardiac death."

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