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TIL a list was compiled of actors with the most on-screen kills, which included (understandably) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Clint Eastwood, but also at #7, beating out Jet Li, is Nicolas Cage with 204 on-screen kills.

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