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TIL Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian scientist, survived being hit directly in the face by a particle accelerator beam.

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ADZno TIL that an American soldier, Henry Gunther, was the last casualty in World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11 a.m.
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