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TIL of Anatoli Bugorski, who was struck on his face by a proton beam while inspecting a particle accelerator. The beam passed through his brain. He survived and went onto finish his PhD. Half his face is paralyzed, giving one hemisphere of his head a strangely young appearance.

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