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Since the OP has morphed into something a bit different anyway I’ll add my own story. I recall in 1961 seeing in a small museum somewhere “back east” (I’m a westerner) a Union soldier’s musket hanging on the wall with a large bulge in the center of the barrel. An X-ray had shown that a Minie ball had entered the muzzle at the precise moment that the Union soldier fired his weapon. The two Minie balls were fused together, still in the bore. The result was one dead Yankee - I don’t recall for sure but I think the breech blew out, killing him. The only other thing I can remember is the title of the exhibit: “One in a billion.”
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