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substantial-freud t1_irismq9 wrote

Reply to comment by 8urnMeTwice in TIL of Joseph Trombino, a security guard who survived the 1981 Brink’s robbery in Nyack, NY. He continued working for the company for the next 20 years, was nearly killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and was ultimately killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. by schmo_hawk

According to Pliny, the Greek playwright Aeschylus spent a lot of time in the countryside to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object. Supposedly, he was killed at the age of 67, when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The eagle is believed to have mistaken his bald head for a rock and tried to use it to crack the shell of its prey.

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