morerubberstamps OP t1_jeerx9x wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:16 PM

Reply to comment by POO7 in TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs. by morerubberstamps

The tv series was definitely on my regular rotation of Saturday afternoon watching.

morerubberstamps OP t1_jeejste wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:17 PM

Reply to comment by dark_hypernova in TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs. by morerubberstamps

Yes for the former. >Tintin was choked, thrown down stairs, tossed from a train, poisoned with chloroform, mauled by a lion, shot and hurled a great distance by an explosion, events that may have also caused neurological damage.

morerubberstamps OP t1_jeafaq9 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:15 PM

Reply to comment by leadchipmunk in TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs. by morerubberstamps

Nope, countless. Just unending punches. Just when you think Tintin is done getting punched - Bam! another punch.

And don't get me started on the clubs.

morerubberstamps OP t1_jea38nn wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:53 PM

Reply to comment by DavoTB in TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs. by morerubberstamps

It's probably not ideal.

morerubberstamps OP t1_jea2nd1 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:49 PM

Reply to TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs. by morerubberstamps

This led researchers to publish a tongue-in-cheek study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, which concluded that these repeated blows to the head contributed to his short stature:

>It appears that his perennially prepubescent look is due to a growth-hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, conditions likely brought on by repeated blows to the head.

>"We believe that the multiple traumas Tintin sustained could be the first case of traumatic pituitary injury described in the literature," said Claude Cyr, an associate professor of medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Que."