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Oh, Phineas Gage was 25 years old in 1848.
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And he liked his job, working at the railroad, but he had another fate.
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He was blasting rock when something distracted him.
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And he forgot to put the tamping sand in.
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He shoved the tamping rod into that little hole onto the blasting powder.
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And suddenly his entire left frontal lobe had been turned into clam chowder.


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Oh this is the story of Phineas Gage, who was stabbed in the brain.
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And once your frontal lobe has been destroyed, you can never go home again.