I was recently reading about the legendary silent comedy star Harold Lloyd, and learned the interesting fact that he did his famous comedy stunts despite having lost the index finger and thumb of his right hand (he used a glove with prosthetic digits to hide the injury).
Here is Wikipedia's account of how Lloyd lost those fingers:
"On Sunday, August 24, 1919, while posing for some promotional still photographs in the Los Angeles Witzel Photography Studio, he picked up what he thought was a prop bomb and lit it with a cigarette. It exploded and mangled his right hand, causing him to lose a thumb and forefinger."
What is not explained — and what really should be explained — is why did the photo studio have a real bomb lying around in the first place?
This is going to keep me up at nights.
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