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TIL about an 80' (24.4m) stunt fall before airbags. During filming for a 1975 movie Joe Powell, as stunt double for Sean Connery, performed a stunt as a rope bridge was cut falling 80' (24.4m) onto a pile of mattresses and cardboard boxes

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