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TIL that in 2014, the comedian Tracy Morgan was involved in a car collision with a Walmart trailer, killing his accompanying friend, and leaving Morgan with a broken femur and nose, brain injury, and broken ribs. He sued Walmart for negligence, and the company settled the lawsuit for $90 million.

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