Don’t worry, even geniuses are idiots.
W.B. Yeats was denied a post at Trinity College in Dublin for spelling “professor” wrong on the application.
REAL SMOOTH, ONE OF THE FOREMOST FIGURES OF 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE.
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Ben Franklin nearly killed himself giving an electric shock to a turkey.
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Charles Darwin ate an owl.
He described the experience as... "indescribable." Cool.
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Isaac Newton served in Parliament for a full year and only spoke one sentence.
That sentence was to ask for an open window to be closed because the room was drafty. YES, REALLY.
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