Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20151002041329/@comment-26083398-20151226231645

You know, Samual Clemens (aka Mark Twain)'s life was saved because of a lie stated by his trainer when he was once challenged to a duel back in 1864, stating he was a skilled marksman, his opponent actually believed the statment due to one prime piece of "evidence" at the given time:  a decapitated bird to which Clemen's trainer shoot and killed, but stated to his opponent that he (Clemens) was the one who shot and killed the bird. The opponent decided to request calling off the duel, to which Clemens willingly agreed, and thus saving his life so that he could go on and write his famous novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.