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TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.

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