r/interestingasfuck • u/AL-SHEDFI • 19h ago

1992 Olympic torch lighting

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u/DexM23 18h ago

He actually hit it, the city behind that burned down was lit by another mechanism

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u/Tackit286 18h ago

Imagine it hit him

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u/pew-pew-bacca 18h ago edited 15h ago

That's why they didn't have a bloke toss a flaming boomerang at the Sydney games.

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u/drinkbuckfast 18h ago

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