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James Eagan Holmes, the guy who committed the Aurora shooting during the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, was sentenced to 13 life sentences in prison, with an additional 3,318 years for rigging his apartment with bombs and 140 counts of attempted murder
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A flight attendant named Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 ft fall when the plane she was in broke apart from a bomb explosion. She holds a Guinness World Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute
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The week of the Russian apartment bombings, 3 FSB agents were arrested for planting a live bomb in an apartment building. They were later released after the head of the FSB claimed it was an exercise.
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In 1961, a B-52 bomber broke apart over North Carolina and two nuclear bombs fell to the ground. One was was armed and the second has yet to be recovered.
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That, in 1962, a B-52 bomber broke apart over North Carolina, sending Atomic Bombs hurtling to earth. All the failsafes on one warhead failed except a single switch which remained intact, saving the US from nuclear disaster.
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Over 1 million people rent illegal, underground, bomb-shelter apartments to live in Beijing
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Since 1996, Singapore's building code has required that all new apartment buildings are constructed with a personal bomb shelter, designed to shield occupants from shock waves and shrapnel, just in case the city ever gets bombed
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In 1961, two nuclear bombs were ejected from a B-52 that broke apart mid-flight over North Carolina. Upon recovery of one of the bombs, it was discovered that 5 of 6 safety devices to prevent accidental detonation had failed. Such an explosion had a potential yield of 20,000,000 tons of TNT.
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The first flight in aviation by the Wright Brothers and the use of a Nuclear bomb was only 42 years apart.
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When Little Boy exploded most of the uranium had been blown apart. What was left weighed less than a $1 bill. It killed more than 80,000 people immediately.
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In 1961 a nuclear bomb had nearly exploded in North Carolina when its aircraft broke apart 9,000 feet up and out spilled two nukes, each more than 250 times the power of Hiroshima bomb. The nuclear explosion would have completely changed the Eastern seaboard.
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In 1992 Detectives in Vienna had found two wealthy, elderly sisters dead in an apartment and needed to determine which died first in order to properly disperse the women’s substantial estates and life insurance payouts. They solved the problem thanks to cold war bomb testing in 1963.
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During a nazi raid in his own apartment, a gestapo officer spotted a picture of the painting known as the Guernica. The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country town in northern Spain, by the nazis. When asked if he painted this, Picasso replied “no, you did”.
About the 1999 Russian apartment bombings, which were likely an inside job and led to Putin's rise to power - source
The Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb out of a helicopter onto an apartment building to get people to come out - plan backfired - source
Alexander Litvinenko was a KSB Agent that fled to the UK after accusing the Russian government of assassinating a Russian businessman, a journalist and staging the Russian apartment bombings. He later was assassinated in the UK in 2006
Ricardo Lopez, AKA The Bjork Stalker, who, in 1996, recorded a video diary of his obsession with, and attempt to kill the Icelandic singer with a letter bomb before videoing his own suicide. He was found in his apartment four days afterwards. - source
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In 1999, the FSB coordinated bombings on Russian apartments to initiate he Second Chechen War.
