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TIL although she suffered several injuries, a Virginia skydiver survived hitting the ground at 80mph after falling over 13K feet when her parachute failed to open. Her reserve did deploy, but it made her main parachute pop out also & when the 2 parachutes separated, it dragged her down in a spiral.

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