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TIL that "Steady" Ed Headrick, the inventor of the Frisbee had his ashes incorporated into discs after his death so that he could fly. Ed loved the Disc Golf and Frisbee community and he wished for the community to have his discs and for them to have fun and play with them after he passed on.

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