Watching Jet Li's various films such as Once Upon a Time in China and then later on reading on Wikipedia how a number of the stuff I seen onscreen were actually real absolutely flabbergasted me.

Most of all about how the Boxer Rebellion insurgents not only literally believed they were immune to contemporary European weapons but that they can even catch bullets with their bare hands! Moreso since some of Jet Li's movies that takes place in earlier historical periods actually has him casted as a warlord leading Chinese armies that had early gunpowder rifles with at least one role involving Jet Li himself actually using a single bullet handgun and a rifle in a battle scene or two in some of these historical epics!

Makes me wonder how the Boxers could have people in the rebellion who were so ignorant as to how gunpowder weapons functioned considering as early as the era of the Samurai, China already fought a war against Japan where cannons, explosives, and primitive rifles were already being used on the scale of tens of thousands? In which the same war Korea even developed a navy with the first real steel battleships centuries before they started becoming the norm in Western armies during the American Civil War!