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TIL of the 1975 Ebbin brothers coincidental tragedy in Bermuda. Both Erskine and Neville were 17, riding the same moped, and hit by the same taxi carrying the same passenger a year apart. Considering the population and landmass of Bermuda back then, the odds of it happening were not that small.

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