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TIL a man named Gary Ashbrook died after suffocation by a condom. He was looking for new sexual thrills, but ended up dead, suffocated by a condom. Gary was found dead naked, next to three empty cans of nitrous oxide which he used to inflate the condom and put it over his head.

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