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TIL In 1983 journalist and weekend NBC national news anchor Jessica Savage and her boyfriend Martin Fishbein drowned in the Delaware River. They left a restaurant in a torrential rain storm and took a wrong exit, ending up on a tow path to the river, the car plunged in and landed upside down.

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