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In 1909, dueling with wax bullets became popular. Defeated parties could be “theoretically pronounced dead… and the supposedly fatal results created general merriment.”
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Pistol dueling with wax bullets was a popular pastime in the early 20th century and even featured as a sport in the 1908 Summer Olympics
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Pistol dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport.
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Pistol dueling was a sport in the 1908 summer Olympics. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.
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Dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport
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Pistol deuling was an event in the 1908 Olympics, in which competitors would fire wax bullets at one another.
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Deuling with wax bullets was once (and only once) featured as an olympic sport.
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During the last execution by firing squad in the US, one of the squad's rifles was "selected at random and loaded with a non-lethal wax bullet so that they would not know with certainty who fired the fatal shots"
