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TIL Tim Horton died after crashing his car driving drunk and high

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x6l9b TIL about the movie “The Program” and a scene where college football players laid in the dividing line of traffic. Groups of teenagers tried to replicate the scene resulting in one death and two injuries. The scene was removed from all further releases of the film
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