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TIL Bruce Lee could deliver a blow in 5/10 of a second from a distance of one meter (and 8/10 of a second from a meter and a half). It's 1/20 of the time it takes for a person to blink. At the time the standard cameras couldn't cope with the speed of Bruce's blows. His strikes were not visible.

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