24 Badass Facts about People You Probably Never Heard Of

by Unbelievable Facts7 years ago

7 In 1961 a Russian doctor had to remove his own appendix after it burst because he was the only doctor stationed in a remote soviet research station in Antarctica and luckily he survived

Leonid Rogozov
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When the 27-year-old doctor, Leonid Rogozov, was stationed in the frontier conditions of newly founded Antarctic colony, he began to feel ill with sever pain and classic symptoms of appendicitis. He knew the only way to survive was to operate on himself as there was no transportation because of snowstorms and he was the only doctor on the base. So, he chose a few men to assist him while he operated on himself calmly and focusedly. He rested in every five minutes for a few seconds to recover from weakness and vertigo. It took him an hour and 45 minutes to complete the operation and he had to work by looking at the reversed image in a mirror. He recovered within two weeks and was back on regular duty.(source)

8 Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen formed a chisel out of his own frozen feces to free himself from an avalanche. He then amputated his own frozen toes with a hammer… without anesthesia.

Peter Freuchen
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Peter Freuchen was once sheltering in a snowbank during a storm and later found that he was encased in a coffin-sized tomb of ice and snow that had immobilized him at the spot. He spent hours struggling to get out, trying to claw at the ice with his bare hands and with his frozen bearskin. Even much of his beard was torn because it was frozen to the runners of his sled. He almost gave up, but later recovered his strength and encouraged himself. He then remembered the way dog’s dung would freeze and turn rock solid.

So, he experimented with his own excrement and fashioned it into a chisel. He then patiently dug himself out without breaking the chisel. When he got back to the camp, he found that his feet were frostbitten and gangrene had set in one foot. Being a teetotaler, Freuchen amputated his own toes with pincers and a hammer without any drink to ease the pain.(source)

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9 Charles Rigoulot, a French weightlifter, was jailed for hitting a Nazi guard, but broke out of his jail cell by bending the bars. He allowed other prisoners to escape as well.

Charles Jean Rigoulot
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Charles Jean Rigoulot was a French weightlifter, professional wrestler, racing driver, and actor. He won the gold medal for weightlifting in 1924 Summer Olympics and set ten world records between 1923 and 1926. In 1932, he became and worked as a professional strongman in circus and as a wrestler who was billed “the strongest man in the world”. During the World War II, he was imprisoned for hitting a Nazi officer and escaped from the prison by bending the doors allowing himself and even other prisoners to escape.(source)

10 In 1907 a Mexican railroad brakeman named Jesús García saved the entire town of Nacozari, Sonora by single-handedly driving a damaged and burning train containing dynamite six kilometers away from the town before it finally exploded and killed him.

Jesús García
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Jesús García was the railroad breakman for the track between Nacozari, Sonora, and Douglas, Arizona. On November 7, 1907, one of the train’s firebox started to fail and sparks that were coming out of the train’s chimney were being blown by the wind towards the car containing dynamite. García saw that the hay covering the roof of the car caught fire and the wind blew them into the dynamites. Therefore, he immediately drove the train in reverse downhill at full-steam six kilometers out of the town before it exploded  and thus he saved the mining town population. He died in the explosion and the town was renamed to Nacozari de García.(source)

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11 A man named Joseph Bolitho Johns broke out of Australian prisons so many times that the police were compelled to build a special cell just for him. He escaped from that cell as well.

Joseph Bolitho Johns - Moondyne Joe
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Joseph Bolitho Johns, also known as Moondyne Joe, was arrested several times during the mid 19th century. In 1848, he was arrested for stealing three loaves of bread, one piece of bacon, several cheeses and “other goods” from a house. He and his partner were charged with burglary, but said they didn’t commit the crime. However, they were convicted and sent to jail for ten years. It was said that Johns’ lack of court etiquette made the judge angry, who gave sentences of three weeks to three months for similar crimes in the same day before John’s case.

Johns was arrested and sent to prison several times until he was 55. His life and escapes have stirred so much interest among the townspeople of Toodyay that they celebrate every first Sunday of May as Moondyne Festival with street theater, markets, and performances.(source)

12 Dr Barry Marshall was convinced that H. pylori bacteria caused stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went on to win a Nobel Prize

Barry Marshall
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Barry Marshall, who was working as the Registrar of Medicine at the Royal Perth Hospital, along with Robin Warren studied the presence of spiral bacteria in association with gastritis. They hypothesized that H. pylori was related to bacterial cause of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. But their theory was not well received among the established scientists who did not believe that any bacteria could survive in an acidic environment.

Convinced that he was right Marshall drank a Petri dish containing H. pylori expecting to develop symptoms years later, he was surprised when only after three days he developed nausea and halitosis, and in 5 to 8 days vomiting without hydrochloric acid. After running more tests, Marshall began taking antibiotics which made him better. Then, this finding of him enabled him to win Nobel Prize.(source)

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