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TIL: In 2020, an explosion at a chemical facility in Spain killed 3 people, however, one of them, Sergio Millán was 2 kilometers away and not a worker, when he was struck by a steel plate from the explosion weighing 800kg with a security camera catching the plate traveling 2km to reach him.

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