Lived through things that should have killed them, and kept notes.

What kind of person enters a fencing tournament against an entire garrison while their brain is swelling inside their skull?

What do you find when you open a grave that belonged to a man who never stopped walking?

If he memorized 7,000 pieces but only 100 words, what exactly was he listening for?

What kind of woman eats cold oatmeal for lunch, sleeps with a revolver tied to her hand, and gets a personal visit from J.P. Morgan asking for financial advice?

He crossed every ocean alone and considered learning to swim entirely pointless.

He built a small closet, filled it with the vomit of the dying, and sat inside breathing deeply — all to prove yellow fever wasn't contagious.