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TIL an 1880’s guy’s GF committed suicide. Her brother, enraged, shot the man in the face & then committed suicide. However, the bullet only grazed his face & hit a tree. 20 years later the man dynamited the tree which sent the bullet flying into his head, finally killing him.

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