By Ashritha Raghavendra
April 06, 2022
Pythagoras had an aversion for fava beans and forbade his followers from touching or eating them.
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Leonardo Da Vinci was ambidextrous - he could draw forward and backward with opposing hands simultaneously.
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Isaac Newton was an alchemist. He wrote 169 books on the subject, but none were published in his lifetime.
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Nikola Tesla had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), which compelled him to do things in 3s. He also refused to touch hair, pearls or anything round.
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The pathologist who performed Einstein’s autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.
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Richard Feynman, the theoretical physicist who introduced nanotechnology was a master at cracking safes.
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Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, was a polymath and fluently spoke eight languages.
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Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu would drown himself underwater for hours. He believed that starving the brain of oxygen would stimulate his creativity.
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