A fact about my idol Gabriele d'Annunzio, which for most people would be the most interesting thing about them but for him doesn’t even make it into the top 50, is that he participated in two pistol duels and lost them both.

Once he let the other guy shoot first and miss by a mile, and then fired his own gun into the ground, sort of the intentional walk of pistol duels. The guy insisted on reloading and doing it again, which while technically his right under the accepted code duello was generally considered a Total Dick Move, and winged d'Annunzio in the crown of the head.

Gabriele attributed his developing baldness to the disinfectant used to clean the wound, proclaimed that it made him the sexiest man in the world, and claimed that in the future, everybody would be bald.