stackyFACTSThe great playwright Aeschylus met a demise more absurd than any comedy he could have written. Legend states that an eagle, mistaking his bald head for a rock, dropped a live tortoise directly onto his skull to crack its shell, instantly killing the father of Greek tragedy.
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