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This is what your skull looks like if someone shoves a serrated blade into it. And remarkably, it looks as though he'll be okay. The brain is a wonderfully resilient thing ... take Mr Phineas Gage for example. A railroad worker in mid-1800s America, Phineas had the misfortune accidentally send an explosive-powered tamping iron right through his head. Sure, he suffered a radical personality re-jig, but he lived to tell the tale (for about another 12 years at least).
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