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== Real Life ==
* Sir Henry Rawlinson was a military man. This guy traveled 750 miles by horseback in the span of 150 consecutive hours. His hobby was being an Orientalist, including being a, probably ''the'', leading scholar of Assyriology. Seriously, the guy is sometimes called the Father of Assyriology. By the time he died he knew multiple languages some of which he played a role in bringing back from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language extinction]. Rawlinson climbed a ~300 foot cliff so he could copy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription an inscription] so he could translate it. And he made the climb multiple times to access more of the inscription.
* The majority of people who work for the FBI, CIA, or hell, any intelligence agency in the entire world qualify as this. Not only do you have to have above average intelligence to even qualify to work for them, but after you become accepted into the job you have to go through rigorous physical training every month, or even every week to keep yourself in shape. Operatives especially have to keep themselves and their bodies well-built and muscular, seeing as how they often put themselves in harms way all the damn time.
** This also holds true for many special operations units. While they do have to be in incredible physical condition, their training is frequently described as being primarily a mental test - which makes sense, given the huge breadth of skills each man has to master. Every soldier in the US Army Special Forces (the Green Berets), for instance, has to master at least one foreign language just to get the job in the first place, to say nothing of learning advanced emergency medicine or applied chemistry and physics.
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