On April 10, 1877, a 14-year-old girl called “Zazel” was the very first human cannonball, she was launched from a spring-loaded tube in London. She started a pretty fun exhibition tradition for circuses
The the 1920’s, the ingenious Ildebrando Zacchini invented a compressed air cannon, which increased the flight range, and the cannon blast noise was a sound effect produced by igniting half a cup of gunpowder as his son was being shot from the cannon.
https://art-sheep.com/the-art-of-shooting-people/
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Did human connonball people ever succeed in obtaining life insurance?
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