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Originally Posted by FireHorse

the really surprising thing is that a successful dagger to the head might not be lethal.

Allow me to introduce you to the famous Phineas Gage.

Gage isn't unique, as Mohammad Tarique demonstrated last year. Or just look at the first page of Google search results for medical reports like these.

An unsuspecting motorcycle passenger was ambushed and impaled on the right side of the head with a 30cm serrated meat carving knife... The patient escaped running with the knife in his head

a 37-year-old right-handed man who was impaled in the head by an angle metal bar at a construction work site... The patient made a good recovery although he has functional deficits related to the injury to his frontal lobes