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and the marksman would
fire the bullet.
And Chung Ling Soo would catch
the bullet in his teeth,
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and then spit the bullet onto the plate.
- You're shitting me.
- And they would check it.
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And it would be the same mark that was made by the guy in the audience.
- It was an amazing effect.
- Whoa.
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It goes back
to the 16th century.
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What was that book called?
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There was a book about it called
"The Riddle of Chung Ling Soo"
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by a guy named Will Dexter, but...
- I'll check that out. - The thing that's amazing
is he's performing one day at the Wood Green Empire Theatre,
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you know, in London in 1918.
And he's doing this stunt...
they shoot him, he drops to the ground
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and he's dead. He actually dies trying to catch the bullet
- in his mouth.
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-No! - To this day, there's still all sorts of speculation
about what really happened.
:37:46
"Was it an attempt
to commit suicide?"
He had some rocky relationship
with his wife Dot,
:37:53
who performed with...
under the name of Suee Seen.
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But the thing I always remembered about the case...
you know, being a P.I. I guess is that
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the Coroner's report
called it "misadventure."
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"Death by misadventure."
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Not bad.
- This is a great castle
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- Look at this stonework.
:38:26
- Stonehenge.
- Well, not quite, is it?
-Bueno no casi-
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No, but there's a similar castle down
three miles from here that has a replica.
:38:35
Of Stonehenge?!
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hey moved
the Salisbury Plain up here?
Just a replica. Was built for like
the princess of Romania, by this guy, Sam Hill Rockefeller.
:38:43
That guy... that auto man
from Arizona... McCulloch
:38:46
had the whole London Bridge
brought out to Arizona.
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-Yeah, same thing.
-In 1831, there was this guy
who played his chin
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at the opening of the bridge.
Michael Boai.
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Played "Ladoiska," by Kreutzer.
The whole overture, man.
Sample that for some music.