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We all knew this day would come, but heck I thought things were actually looking up for old Evel Knievel, what with his recent settlement with Kanye West and all.

But nothing lasts forever, and it's with a heavy heart we say farewell to one of the last great stupid daring large-living no-apologizing Americans.

He successfully jumped 50 stacked cars at the L.A. Coliseum in November of '73, but he was a citizen of the whole goddamned world.

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