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**** He also kept a badger as a pet. Not a trained one, considering most people complained of it running around savaging visitors ankles.
*** According to some, he took up judo after he was blinded boxing, because it wasn't as rough.
** In short, there's a reason why ''[[Cracked.com]]'' has him as the most badass manliest-man ever.
* During the Hundred Years War between England and France, English King Henry V was supposedly '''hit in the face with an arrow'''. He not only survived both the impact of the arrow and the surgery to remove it from his face, he proceeded to get right back up and return to beating the hell out of the French until he seized the Crown of France.
** It was at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 when Henry was 16 and still only a prince. John Bradmore, the doctor who removed the arrow, wrote about it -- "struck by an arrow next to his nose on the left side"; "The which arrow entered at an angle (ex traverso), and after the arrow shaft was extracted, the head of the aforesaid arrow remained in the furthermost part of the bone of the skull for the depth of six inches." The aftercare took several weeks. Henry won the battle, which was against English rebels.
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* [[Andrew Jackson]], 7th president of the United States, dueled quite a bit. In one duel, he actually allowed his opponent to take the first shot, then shot and killed his opponent while he was reloading. Repeat: in a contest where the object is to kill your opponent, Jackson ''volunteered'' to be shot at first. Apparently, his opponent had such a reputation as a duelist that he saw no purpose in trying to draw faster, so he accepted the rapid-but-badly-aimed first shot in order to retaliate with an aimed (and therefore lethal) shot. Keep in mind, Jackson got shot in the ribs, with the bullet so close to his heart no doctor would try to remove it for fear of killing him. Yet he walked away from the duel, acting like nothing had happened. Also a real life example of [[Authority Equals Asskicking]].
** Jackson actually had ''several'' bullets, a few arrowheads, and a ''bayonet tip'' lodged permanently in his body. It was said that he "rattled like a bag of marbles" when he walked around. (There's a story about Jackson digging a bullet out of his own arm during a Cabinet meeting, no form of pain relief, then mailing it back to a former duel opponent with a note along the lines of "I believe this belongs to you". This ''could'' be apocryphal, but given ''who'' the story is about....)
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*** Also under the category of "get post-op infection and die".
** Then there was [http://www.americanheritage.com/people/articles/web/20070130-richard-lawrence-andrew-jackson-assassination-warren-r-davis.shtml the time Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate then-President Jackson]. Two pistols misfired, and Jackson promptly beat Lawrence so thoroughly with his cane that his aides had to physically restrain him. Jackson was 67 at the time, and reportedly having respiratory problems.
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* Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen -- the Red Baron. He was shot in the back of the head with an aircraft machine gun in late 1917. The bullet ricocheted off his skull, doing no permanent damage... at least physically. Those who knew him said he was a changed man after that day though, and may have led to his death in April, 1918.
** His eventual demise was also notable. The .303 machine gun bullet that hit his chest ruptured his heart and severely damaged his lungs -- a wound that should incapacitate a man instantly and lead to death within a couple of seconds. Not if you are the Red Baron. He managed to land and bring his Fokker plane to a full stop safely before moving on to the next world.
* Everyone from the following ''[[Cracked.com]]'' articles: [http://www.cracked.com/article_17573_7-fatal-injuries-that-people-somehow-survived.html 7 Fatal Injuries That People Somehow Survived] and [http://www.cracked.com/article_16497_7-people-who-cheated-death-then-kicked-it-in-balls.html 7 People Who Cheated Death, Then Kicked It in the Balls].
* A couple of years ago in California, a man emptied his revolver into his lawyer at point blank range in front of the courthouse. Not only did the lawyer not die, but he was even able to casually walk away when the gunman ran out of ammo. The tail end of the incident was caught on video and circulated around on the internet. The lawyer was not wearing armor and he was indeed hit several times (including being shot through the neck), but you wouldn't know it from the way he seems to shrug it off in the video.
* [http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/stabbed_man_orders_coffee This guy]. When your first reaction to getting stabbed is to call not an ambulance but ''the police'', and then your second is to ''walk a mile to go and order a coffee''...
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