OCD composer Ludwig van Beethoven brewed every cup of coffee with exactly sixty beans. The French novelist Honore de Balzac drank as many as fifty cups of thick black coffee per day. President Theodore Roosevelt drank approximately a gallon of… Read More
Before it was proven that a mosquito was the vector of yellow fever, people believed the disease was spread by the wind, or by yellow fruit. Crates of oranges and bananas were buried during epidemics.