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You have all been lied to. Sorry to break the news to you this way, but it's true. Dos Equis has led you to believe that the most interesting man in the world is a fictional character with a spray tan, white beard, and an accent you can't really seem to place.
This is not the case, however. Aja Romano over at The Daily Dot has uncovered someone who is way more interesting and more importantly, way more real. A quick scan of simply the intro paragraph of the Wikipedia page belonging to Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart makes everyone else who ever lived just seem plain old boring. Let's take a look...
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He fought in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn't amputate them. He later said "frankly I had enjoyed the war."
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While that is enough to make any other human being give up on life, that's really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this man. The following is a list of facts that will make you realize just how dull your own life actually is:
- He once removed his own eyeball because it was interfering with aiming his gun.
- He was said to be the illegitimate son of the King of Belgium.
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- He was married to a countess named Fugger von Babenhausen.
- He advised Winston Chruchill before World War II.
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- At the age of 61, he dug his way out of an Italian POW camp and pretended to be an Italian peasant for a week despite not speaking Italian.
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- He left behind a list of accolades that will make you feel beyond insignificant including being awarded the Victoria Cross, the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Distinguished Service Order.
For more on the guy with a name almost as long as his list of achievements, check out the cool piece on The Daily Dot.-
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