It seems the greater the genius, the greater the eccentricities. From scatology to incest, from bad hygiene to grave-robbing, these brilliant men personify 'mad genius' in its truest sense. Let's take a look at some of the "dumbest" behaviors of some of the smartest men in history (Now with more incest!)
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1. Albert Einstein married his cousin, Elsa Einstein, in 1919.
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2. Aristotle's mistress was named Herpyllis. A total red flag.
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3. Mozart was deeply into scat. He wrote letters to his cousin Maria expressing how he'd like to "sh*t on her nose" and let it "run down her chin." He also said this gem: "Stick a finger in my a**, then put it to my nose." Clearly, he was into his cousin.
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4. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe had a habit of holding his pee at the dinner table. He thought it was rude to get up. One night at a banquet in Prague in 1601, he held it too long and developed a kidney infection. Brahe's bladder exploded less than two weeks later.
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5. Michelangelo rarely bathed or changed his clothes. He almost always slept in his boots. One of his assistants once complained, "He has sometimes gone so long without taking (his shoes) off that then the skin came away, like a snake's, with the boots."
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6. Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Darwin, had 10 children. Seems an odd choice given the man's theory on survival of the fittest, as children of incest don't typically end up very fit.
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7. James Joyce is regarded as one of the 20th century's most influential writers. He was also a huge pervert. In love letters to his partner Nora Barnacle, he wrote some of the rankest sh*t I have ever seen. Here are some highlights:
o. "My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter."
o. "You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I f*cked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."
o. "Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little f*ckbird!"
o. "The smallest things give me a great c*ckstand - a whorish movement of your mouth, a little brown stain on the seat of your white drawers..."
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8. 'William Shakespeare' is an anagram of 'I am a weakish speller.' Another anagram is 'He, I will make ass rape!'
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9. Salvador Dali's asked his friend to give him an exorcism in 1947. Dali presented Italian friar Gabriele Maria Berardi with a sculpture of Christ as a thank-you gesture.
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10. Galileo thought the ocean's tides were caused by the speeding up and slowing down of the Earth's axis around the sun. What an idiot.
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11. Johann Sebastian Bach married his second cousin and had seven children with her. She also happens to be named Maria. What the hell is happening?
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12. Thomas Edison adopted quite the eccentric diet in the late 1920s: He believed consuming only milk could treat his ulcer and diabetes. He drank a pint every three hours and eventually his blood sugar shot through the roof. He succumbed to death in 1931
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13. Leonardo da Vinci was a certified grave robber (he dug up at least 30 corpses to study their anatomy).
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14. According to Nikola Tesla biographer and inventor Andrija Puharich, Tesla's only student once asked him why he never had sex. Tesla pulled down his pants and revealed that he had no balls. It is heavily rumored Tesla castrated himself to give his "big head" more attention than his "little head."
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15. Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, in 1835 ... when he was 27. Alright...I'm done.
1. Albert Einstein married his cousin, Elsa Einstein, in 1919.
2. Aristotle's mistress was named Herpyllis. A total red flag.
3. Mozart was deeply into scat. He wrote letters to his cousin Maria expressing how he'd like to "sh*t on her nose" and let it "run down her chin." He also said this gem: "Stick a finger in my a**, then put it to my nose." Clearly, he was into his cousin.
4. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe had a habit of holding his pee at the dinner table. He thought it was rude to get up. One night at a banquet in Prague in 1601, he held it too long and developed a kidney infection. Brahe's bladder exploded less than two weeks later.
5. Michelangelo rarely bathed or changed his clothes. He almost always slept in his boots. One of his assistants once complained, "He has sometimes gone so long without taking (his shoes) off that then the skin came away, like a snake's, with the boots."
6. Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Darwin, had 10 children. Seems an odd choice given the man's theory on survival of the fittest, as children of incest don't typically end up very fit.
7. James Joyce is regarded as one of the 20th century's most influential writers. He was also a huge pervert. In love letters to his partner Nora Barnacle, he wrote some of the rankest sh*t I have ever seen. Here are some highlights:
o. "My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter."
o. "You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I f*cked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."
o. "Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little f*ckbird!"
o. "The smallest things give me a great c*ckstand - a whorish movement of your mouth, a little brown stain on the seat of your white drawers..."
8. 'William Shakespeare' is an anagram of 'I am a weakish speller.' Another anagram is 'He, I will make ass rape!'
9. Salvador Dali's asked his friend to give him an exorcism in 1947. Dali presented Italian friar Gabriele Maria Berardi with a sculpture of Christ as a thank-you gesture.
10. Galileo thought the ocean's tides were caused by the speeding up and slowing down of the Earth's axis around the sun. What an idiot.
11. Johann Sebastian Bach married his second cousin and had seven children with her. She also happens to be named Maria. What the hell is happening?
12. Thomas Edison adopted quite the eccentric diet in the late 1920s: He believed consuming only milk could treat his ulcer and diabetes. He drank a pint every three hours and eventually his blood sugar shot through the roof. He succumbed to death in 1931
13. Leonardo da Vinci was a certified grave robber (he dug up at least 30 corpses to study their anatomy).
14. According to Nikola Tesla biographer and inventor Andrija Puharich, Tesla's only student once asked him why he never had sex. Tesla pulled down his pants and revealed that he had no balls. It is heavily rumored Tesla castrated himself to give his "big head" more attention than his "little head."
15. Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, in 1835 ... when he was 27. Alright...I'm done.