Phineas Gage - Top 10 Skulls
After that fateful day working on the railroad, Phineas Gage reportedly cursed. Intensely. But you'd probably multiply the number of four-letter words in your vocabulary, too, if a 3-ft. 7-in. tamping iron weighing a good 13 lb. had shot through your skull. Remarkably, Gage was upright and speaking within minutes after the Sept. 13, 1848,