The Man Who Survived Being Shot Through the Head By the World’s Strongest Laser

Anatoli Bugorski is a Russian scientist who defied all laws of physics and he is miraculously still alive today.

The Grim Reality

Scientists that work with particle accelerators are at constant risk of being exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Fortunately, laboratories that have this type of equipment are put under strict guidelines to ensure the safety of their scientists, but when the perfect storm of mechanical failures occurs, there is no telling what could happen.

The More You Know

The last movie ever rented at a corporate Blockbuster was "This Is The End" at a store in Hawaii.
The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts.
A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.