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

The Man in Question

Anatoli Bugorski was a Russian scientist who was working at the Institute for High Energy Physics in 1978. He was working on the U-70 synchrotron particle accelerator, which is still the most powerful particle accelerator in Russia. That day, there Anatoli was searching for malfunctioning pieces of equipment, just when everything went wrong…

The More You Know

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27,000 tress are cut down every day to become toilet paper.
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