Rotten apples on the table, and 7 more strange habits that famous historical figures had

Outstanding people are sometimes different from others in some way, and this is not only about non-standard thinking or special talents in some business. Often they are also distinguished by unusual behavior, eccentric actions, or simply strange character traits. There were many people in history who left their mark on it, but distinguished themselves not only by the offspring of their genius, but also by frankly non-trivial habits that can be called oddities. Your attention are several strange habits that famous historical figures had.

• 1. Benjamin Franklin

  The founding father of the United States liked to temper extravagantly

  It turns out that one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, was an avid fan of air baths. And this was despite the fact that most of his contemporaries, on the contrary, were convinced that cold air would only cause many diseases. However, Franklin believed that air baths were just good for health. But he took them in an extraordinary manner inherent in many brilliant people: the whole point is that a politician spent every day from half an hour to an hour at an open window, but often he was likened to babies and breathed the air completely without clothes, which plunged into shock his neighbors, at least.

• 2. Thomas Edison

  Edison had unusual interviews

  The famous self-taught inventor Thomas Edison, known as the man involved in the creation of the incandescent lamp, telegraph, telephone and even film equipment, also had a strange habit. When he arranged an interview for those who wanted to become his assistant, instead of the standard conversation, he invited the applicant to dinner and treated him to soup. And if the candidate added seasonings to the dish before he even tried it, then Edison immediately denied the person the position. The inventor explained his unusual whim by the conviction that in this way he calculated and sifted out in advance people who preferred to draw hasty conclusions and remain captive to unsubstantiated prejudices.

• 3. Charles Dickens

  Order was at the forefront of Dickens' life

  The English writer Charles Dickens, author of the famous novels "David Copperfield", "Great Expectations" and "The Adventures of Oliver Twist", with all the oddities that he had, put his perfectionism, manifesting itself in an unusual manner, at the forefront. For example, he demanded that during his work there was absolute silence in the house. However, most of all, the writer was a supporter of impeccable order: he sat down to write only if the writing instruments and other things on his desk were put in a strictly defined order. In addition, he could not stand disheveled hair, so Dickens always carried a comb with him, with which he combed his hair countless times a day.

• 4. Alfred Hitchcock

  It turns out the man who filmed horror films, was afraid of eggs

  It would seem that such an eminent master of suspense, who is often called the king of horrors, like Alfred Hitchcock, should not be afraid of anything at all. However, in reality, he had phobias, and very unpredictable ones. It's hard to believe, but he was afraid ... of his own films, sincerely wondering how the audience came to watch them at all. However, the biggest fear of the legendary British director was ordinary eggs. Hitchcock once admitted that white round objects without holes cause him a natural disgust, and the sight of blood seems to him much more attractive than the yolk flowing from a white egg.

• 5. Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beethoven's approach to brewing coffee was strange

  It would seem that the brilliant German composer Ludwig van Beethoven began the morning quite familiar to most of the planet - with a cup of coffee. However, this is only at first glance, and all because he brewed it exclusively from 60 coffee beans, no more and no less. Moreover, he personally counted them every morning for a new portion of the drink. It is also interesting that Beethoven did not just brew coffee in a cezve, but prepared it using the vacuum method, using a special device for this.

• 6. Albert Einstein

  Einstein did not recognize socks

  One of the founders of theoretical physics and popularizer of the theory of probability, Albert Einstein had an unusual habit of wearing clothes - he was sure that wearing socks was completely inappropriate. So, even in his youth, he noticed that the big toe would definitely make a hole in the sock at some point, so the physicist decided to simply abandon this wardrobe item. And he kept his word: this can be seen in the photographs, where Einstein is depicted in full growth. Moreover, the physicist admitted that he did not deviate from his decision to give up socks even if he was going to solemn events, so he had to hide their absence by putting on high boots.

• 7. George Washington

  The first president of the United States had a strange garden

  The first elected president of the United States of America, George Washington, was a big fan of horticulture. He was the owner of the site, where he grew a variety of crops. Unexpectedly, even cannabis was among the plants. Washington himself wrote about this in his diaries: information about this was recorded there in 1765. Moreover, according to the records of the first American president, what worried him most was the problem of separating male plants from female plants.

• 8. Friedrich Schiller

  Schiller had an unusual way of drawing inspiration

  The German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller had perhaps one of the most unusual sources of inspiration. It turned out that his inspiration was the smell that came from rotten apples. This strange feature of Schiller's talent became known thanks to his colleague Johann Goethe, who was somehow waiting for a friend in his office, and smelled a strange odor at his desk. The reason for the amber was explained by Schiller's wife, who told Goethe about her husband's habit and even noted that the husband was literally unable to live and work without this smell.