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The Sylacauga meteorite

Alabama · Sylacauga (Talladega County, AL)
The Sylacauga meteorite
Kai NeSmith · CC BY 4.0 · source

TRUE: the only documented person ever struck by a meteorite

On a November afternoon in 1954 a nine-pound stone from space crashed through the roof of a house in Sylacauga, bounced off a radio, and struck Ann Hodges as she napped on her couch, bruising her hip badly. She is the only human being in recorded history confirmed to have been hit by a meteorite. The rock and the story are real; the meteorite went to a museum, and the town has never forgotten the day the sky fell on it.

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Sylacauga (Talladega County, AL)
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The source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)

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