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The 16th-century astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose research helped Sir Isaac Newton create the theory of universal gravitation, died an untimely farewell due to the fact that he did not visit the toilet on time. In those days, leaving the table before the end of the feast meant causing a grave insult to the owner of the house. Being a polite man, Brahe did not dare ask permission to leave the table. His bladder burst, and after suffering for 11 days, the astronomer died.

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a 17th-century composer who wrote music commissioned by the French king, died from excess dedication to his work.

Once, during a rehearsal for another concert, he got so excited that, hitting his cane on the floor, he pierced his own leg and died from blood poisoning.

The great illusionist Harry Houdini died after a fan punched him in the stomach. Houdini allowed people to hit him, demonstrating the wonders of an impenetrable abs. He died in hospital from internal injuries.

The twelfth President of the United States, Zachary Taylor, ate a lot of ice cream after a ceremony on a particularly hot day on July 4, 1850, suffered from indigestion and died five days later, having been president for only 16 months.

Jack Daniel, the father of the famous Jack Daniel's whiskey, died of blood poisoning after suffering a leg injury: he broke his finger kicking his safe, to which he forgot the combination.

Vincent van Gogh painted for days, drank buckets of absinthe, cut himself left ear and painted a self-portrait in this form, and at the age of 37 he committed suicide. After his death, by the way, doctors published over 150 medical diagnoses that were given to the great painter during his lifetime.

While working, Gustave Flaubert groaned along with the characters he portrayed, cried and laughed, walked quickly around the office with long steps and loudly chanted words.

Honore de Balzac was afraid of getting married more than anything else in the world. Long years he was in love with Countess Evelina Ganskaya. Balzac resisted for another eight years, but still the Countess insisted on the wedding. The writer fell ill from fear and even wrote to his fiancée: they say, my health is such that you would rather accompany me to the cemetery than have time to try on my name. But the wedding took place. True, Honore was taken down the aisle in a chair, since he himself could not go.

The French artist Henri Matisse, before starting to paint, felt a strong desire to strangle someone.

Voltaire drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day.

Ivan Krylov had an inexplicable mania: he loved to look at fires and tried not to miss a single fire in St. Petersburg.

When the blues attacked Ivan Turgenev, he put a high cap on his head and put himself in a corner. And he stood there until the melancholy passed.

Anton Chekhov loved to say unusual compliments: “dog”, “actress”, “snake”, “crocodile of my soul”.

William Burroughs wanted to surprise the guests at one of the parties. The writer planned to repeat the act of the archer William Tell, who hit an apple standing on the head of his own son. Burroughs placed a glass on his wife Joan Vollmer's head and fired the gun. The wife died from a bullet in the head.

Ivan the Terrible personally rang the bells at the main belfry of the Alexandrovskaya Sloboda in the mornings and evenings. Thus, they say, he tried to drown out mental suffering.

Lord Byron became extremely irritated at the sight of a salt shaker.

Charles Dickens always washed down every 50 lines of what he wrote with a sip of hot water.

Johannes Brahms constantly polished his shoes unnecessarily “for inspiration.”

Isaac Newton once welded a pocket watch while holding an egg and looking at it.

Ludwig van Beethoven always went unshaven, believing that shaving hindered creative inspiration. And before sitting down to write music, the composer poured a bucket on his head cold water: this, in his opinion, should have greatly stimulated the brain.

Alexander Pushkin loved to shoot in the bathhouse. They say that in the village of Mikhailovskoye almost nothing authentic from the time of the poet has been really preserved, but the wall that Pushkin shot at surprisingly remained intact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky could not work without strong tea. When he wrote his novels at night, there was always a glass of tea on his desk, and a samovar was always kept hot in the dining room.

Johann Goethe worked only hermetically indoors, without the slightest access to fresh air.

Commander Alexander Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: his unusual daily routine - he went to bed at six o'clock in the evening and woke up at two o'clock in the morning, his unusual awakening - he wet himself cold water and loudly shouted “ku-ka-re-ku!”, an unusual bed for a commander - despite all ranks, he slept on hay. Preferring to wear old boots, he could easily go out to meet high officials in a sleeping cap and underwear.

He also gave the signal for the attack to his loved ones “ku-ka-re-ku!”, and, they say, after he was promoted to field marshal, he began jumping over chairs and saying: “And I jumped over this one, and over that one.” That!"

Suvorov was very fond of marrying his serfs, guided by a very peculiar principle - he lined them up in a row, selected those suitable in height, and then married 20 couples at a time.

Emperor Nicholas I did not like music and, as a punishment for officers, gave them a choice between the guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas.

Emperor Nicholas I ordered that portraits of his ancestors be hung in the toilet. The Tsar Father justified his action by the fact that Hard time he is pleased to feel the support of his relatives. In addition, Nikolai Pavlovich moved his library to the outhouse.

Arthur Schopenhauer was famous for his excellent appetite and ate for two; if anyone made a remark to him on this score, he replied that he thought for both.

It was his custom to pay for two seats so that no one could join him at the table.

At dinner, he used to talk loudly to his poodle Atman and at the same time addressed him every time as “you” and “sir” if he behaved well, and “you” and “man” if he was the master of something upset.

Sigmund Freud hated music. He threw away his sister's piano and did not visit restaurants with an orchestra.

French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who was irritated by the Eiffel Tower. Nevertheless, he dined at her restaurant every day, explaining that this was the only place in Paris from where the tower was not visible.

Hunter Thompson arrived on the set before filming the film adaptation of his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The role of Raoul Duke was played by Johnny Depp. The writer, being able alcohol intoxication, personally cut the movie star’s hair, creating a huge bald spot on Depp’s head.

The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, designed his own tombstone and wrote a text for it that did not indicate that he was president.

The sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, always wore a tall black top hat on his head, inside which he kept letters, financial papers, bills and notes.

The 20th century Chinese statesman and politician Mao Zedong never brushed his teeth. And when he said that it was unhygienic, he replied: “Have you ever seen a tiger brush his teeth?”

English footballer David Beckham can't stand clutter. The objects surrounding it must be carefully selected in color, shape and size, and their number must be a multiple of two.

Currently, there are not many people who are willing to help others free of charge and sincerely. This collection contains people who make this world a little kinder...
1. Zach Galifianakis
Actor Zach Galifianakis surprised the public with his noble act. Not long ago he bought an apartment for an old woman who found herself on the street.
Zach met 89-year-old Mimi Heist at the beginning of his career. Then Mimi worked in one of the laundries in Los Angeles, where she helped clients with their laundry for tips.

With the advent of Zach's popularity, his life changed dramatically, and he lost contact with the old woman for several years. Some time later, Zach learned that Mimi, after her divorce, was left with nothing and was forced to live in the same laundry room. In addition, she does not have any relatives who could support her.

A famous actor bought an apartment for an old woman and invites her to all his premieres. Mimi still works at the same laundry. It is reported that plans are being made to film a documentary about her story.

2. Uncle Sasha
Alexander Kashirtsev - or simply Uncle Sasha for children - not only turns the steering wheel of his Gazelle, but also checks diaries like a real one classroom teacher. The fare according to its tariffs is: for a rating of “4” in the diary - 10 rubles instead of 17, and for a “5” - free!

The sharply increased number of excellent students does not scare him, and he does not plan to stop his campaign for schoolchildren. Moreover, the innovator’s colleagues from route 74 are now thinking of joining her.
- Losses? I gain much more than I lose, believe me, - this is how Alexander answers the “selfish” question. - Money is not the main thing.

3. Very good video edited by Arkady Moryakhin
This video was edited by a young guy Arkady Moryakhin from Almaty. He assembled it from numerous videos shot on a DVR. He put together a short film about how people, not knowing that they are being filmed, do good deeds. This is a very uplifting and powerful video.

4. Courtney Holmes
American hairdresser and Iowan Courtney Holmes decided to give a free haircut to every child who can read aloud to him and then discuss what he read.

“The kids come, and I tell them: “Go to the table and take any book that you like. If suddenly you cannot read it, I will help you understand it and then we will read it together,” says Courtney Holmes. - “To be honest, I was very surprised. At first the line was only four kids, and then before I knew it, there were already about twenty of them, and everyone wanted to get a haircut and read a book.”

5. Egor Lukashin
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6. Grandfather Dobri
Grandfather Dobri, a 101-year-old beggar from the Bulgarian village of Bailovo, often stands outside the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia, dressed in homespun clothes and ancient leather boots. Every day he gets up early and walks 10 kilometers from his home to the capital.

While filming a documentary about the cathedral, a Bulgarian television journalist made a shocking discovery in the church archives - the most generous private donation the cathedral has ever received - 40,000 euros, was made by an old beggar - Grandfather Dobri.

The 101-year-old saint does not touch a single penny of the money that is handed to him. He lives on his pension of 100 euros a month.

Sometimes people do really crazy things. Some do this because of their innate courage, others - under the influence of alcohol, and the actions of others have no reasonable explanation at all. In our review there are 16 situations when people are in the most different situations behaved unexpectedly: some heroically, some absurdly, and some became hostage to the situation.

Yellow snow

Driver Richard Kral was caught in a snow drift during an avalanche. He chose a rather unusual way to attract attention. Richard drank 30 liters of beer and wrote on the snow until he painted a huge inscription on it: “Never eat yellow snow!”, visible even from helicopters. Rescuers found him drunk on a mountain trail 4 days later

Ripper

Vance Flozenzier was relaxing on the beach in Florida with his nephew when the 8-year-old boy was attacked by a bull shark, biting off his arm. Vance became so enraged that he threw the shark out of the water onto the shore and beat it to death, removing the boy's hand from the predator's throat. Doctors were able to sew the child's hand back on.

Steadfast tin peddler

Josh Lewis, the pizza delivery guy, showed phenomenal dedication to his job. During the next delivery, robbers stopped him, took away his scooter, and Josh himself was stabbed with a knife. But the delivery man, on his own two feet, bleeding, fulfilled the order, delivering the pizza to the address. Only after that did he go to the hospital.

Starving tourist

Chinese man Pun Lim managed to survive for 133 days on a life raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He even managed to kill a shark using the drinking tank included with the raft.

Your own surgeon

Australian Withrow cut himself with a chainsaw. However, he stitched up his wounds, drank a bottle of gin and got behind the wheel to get to the hospital. He was eventually stopped by the police and fined for drunk driving.

The power of stereotype

Apparently, having re-read medieval romance and pseudo-fiction, the legendary Jack Churchill fought during World War II using only a long sword and bow.

Acceptable damage

Michael Moylan from Florida was attacked by his wife while he was sleeping, shooting him in the head. As a result, he woke up in the morning with a severe headache.

Priorities are set

After Thomas Dotterer was shot in the eye during a robbery at his liquor store, he told reporters that the worst event of the week was his performance at a wrestling competition.

Desire to speak out

During a campaign speech in 1912, US presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt was shot by John Schrank. Even though Roosevelt was shot in the chest, he insisted on finishing his 90-minute speech.

Juvenile veteran

Jacqueline Lucas illegally joined the Marines at the age of 14, after which he took part in the assault on Iwo Jima without even owning a rifle. At the same time, he came under the simultaneous explosion of two grenades, but survived.

iron Man

Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times during his lifetime. However, he survived every time. After Walter's death, his grave was also struck by lightning twice.

Death at work

When Susan Kuhnhausen's husband hired a hitman to kill his wife in 2006, he never expected the outcome. The wife strangled the killer with her bare hands.

The desire to live

In 1823, Hugh Glass survived (with a crippled leg) after fighting a bear. The rest of his group believed Hugh to be missing and returned to base without him. Hugh traveled to the nearest city, 360 kilometers away, within six weeks.

Unbroken Perseverance

A homeless man known as "Tough Mike" drank a can of antifreeze to claim insurance but threw himself in front of a taxi when it didn't work.

Lead hangover

A 35-year-old Pole was shot in the head while he was drunk, without even noticing it. As a result, the bullet was accidentally discovered five years later.

Swimming or drinking

In 2007, 55-year-old Martin Strehl swam 5,268 kilometers in the Amazon over 66 days. He drank two bottles of wine a day to keep warm during his swim.

Eccentric behavior and the strangest actions of geniuses

It is believed that a gifted person who has received abilities from nature blithely enjoys the gift he has received throughout his life. But how did brilliant people actually get along with their gift? At all times, creative individuals have been distinguished by extraordinary behavior and a penchant for extravagant actions. Some of these behaviors can be considered cute pranks, and some may well be called crazy weirdness.

Geniuses are already unusual in appearance for their habits and eccentricities.

Friedrich Schiller

For example, for some reason Schiller could only create when there were rotten apples on his table.

Emile Zola

Dumas the son

Girolamo Cardano

Heinrich Ibsen

Ibsen sometimes began to crumple and tear everything that came to hand, often destroying what he had just written.

Robert Schumann

James Garrington

Edgar Allan Poe

Victor Hugo

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse suffered from depression, insomnia, sometimes cried in his sleep and woke up with an animal scream. One day, for no reason at all, he suddenly became afraid of going blind. And he even learned to play the violin so he could make a living as a street musician when he lost his sight.
Before he started drawing, he felt a strong desire to strangle someone! And the process of creativity itself was associated with cutting out a tumor from a patient with a knife and without anesthesia.

Francois-René de Chateaubriand

Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer flew into a rage and refused to pay hotel bills if his last name was written with two letters. And one day, in a fit of rage, Schopenhauer beat an old woman and was forced by court to pay her a pension for the rest of her life.

Vincent van Gogh

Virginia Woolf

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla suffered from a personality disorder, was terribly clean, avoided spherical objects like billiard balls and settled only in hotel rooms with a number divisible by three. In addition, the inventor was an adherent of the so-called eugenics - the concept of general selection, with the help of which it is necessary to influence the genetic development of mankind. In other words, Tesla believed that people with physical and mental disorders should not have the right to offspring so that the gene pool becomes cleaner and of better quality.

Jonathan Swift

Doctors diagnosed Jonathan Swift as a "buzuman". Durant describes, for example, an episode when “five people held Swift as he tried to pluck out his sore eye.”

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was not only an alcoholic and a suicide, as everyone knows. He also had peiraphobia (fear public speaking), in addition, he never believed the praises of even his most sincere readers and admirers. I didn’t even trust my friends.

Lev Tolstoy

Honore de Balzac

Carl Linnaeus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Richard Wagner

Alfred de Musset

Charlotte Bronte

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, in correspondence with his wife Olga Leonardovna, Knipper used standard compliments and kind words very unusual: “actress”, “dog”, “snake” and - feel the lyricism of the moment - “the crocodile of my soul”.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens drank half a liter of sparkling wine. In 1858 he was diagnosed with overwork and one good doctor designed for Dickens special diet. Before getting out of bed, the writer drank a large glass of cream with one or two tablespoons of rum. At noon he would snack on a sherry cobbler and a biscuit. At three o'clock, according to the schedule, champagne followed - half a liter. Between five and eight in the evening, before lectures, one had to eat an egg beaten with sherry.

Mark Twain

American writer Mark Twain was a great joker. Therefore, in his free time from work, he liked to write refutations of his death to various newspapers. Something like “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” In the end, he got hold of all the newspaper editors, and they agreed to attribute “Unfortunately” to this message.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice Maeterlinck

George Sand

Jean de Lafontaine

Bernard Show

Friends watched with surprise as Bernard Shaw, already in old age, put on rubber boots, buttoned up his flannel-lined raincoat and, turning to his household, said: “I’m going to write a play!” And he went to the market, where it was very lively. He was often seen on commuter trains with a notepad in his hands, quickly scribbling line after line. Andre Marie Ampere

Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky

The father of Russian aviation, Zhukovsky, once, after talking the whole evening with friends in his own living room, suddenly got up, looking for his hat, and began to hastily say goodbye, muttering: However, I stayed too long with you, it’s time to go home!

Robert Fisher

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People often do truly crazy things. Some do this because of their innate courage, others - under the influence of alcohol, and the actions of others have no reasonable explanation at all. In our review there are 16 situations where people in a variety of situations behaved unexpectedly: some heroically, some absurdly, and some became hostage to the situation.

1. Yellow snow

2. The Ripper

3.Resistant tin peddler

4. A hungry tourist

Chinese man Pun Lim managed to survive for 133 days on a life raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He even managed to kill a shark using the drinking tank included with the raft.

5. Your own surgeon

6. The power of stereotype

Apparently, having re-read medieval romance and pseudo-fiction, the legendary Jack Churchill fought during World War II using only a long sword and bow.

7. Acceptable damage

His wife tried to kill Michael Moylan from Florida while he was sleeping, shooting him in the head. As a result, he woke up in the morning with a severe headache.

8. Priorities are set

After Thomas Dotterer was shot in the eye during a robbery at his liquor store, he told reporters that the worst event of the week was his performance at a wrestling competition.

9. Desire to speak out

During a campaign speech in 1912, US presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt was shot by John Schrank. Even though Roosevelt was shot in the chest, he insisted on finishing his 90-minute speech.

10. Juvenile veteran

11. Iron Man

Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times during his lifetime. However, he survived every time. After Walter's death, his grave was also struck by lightning twice.

12. Death at work

When Susan Kuhnhausen's husband hired a hitman to kill his wife in 2006, he never expected the outcome. The wife strangled the killer with her bare hands.

13. The desire to live

14. Unbroken perseverance

A homeless man known as "Tough Mike" drank a can of antifreeze to claim insurance but threw himself in front of a taxi when it didn't work.

15. Lead hangover

A 35-year-old Pole was shot in the head while he was drunk, without even noticing it. As a result, the bullet was accidentally discovered five years later.

16. Swim or binge

In 2007, 55-year-old Martin Strehl swam 5,268 kilometers in the Amazon over 66 days. He drank two bottles of wine a day to keep warm during his swim.

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