Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day, Tesla slept after 2 hours: The strangest habits of the greatest nerds

Genius and eccentricity usually come together, so the geniuses who have left a great mark since the past had very strange habits.

Pythagoras disliked beans
The father of vegetarianism, the famous Greek mathematician, Pythagoras is known for popularizing the lifestyle of people who choose not to consume meat in their diet. But while his diet depended on vegetables, he really hated beans.

He not only hated the beans so much, but forbade all his pupils and relatives to eat and touch the beans, although we do not know if this aversion comes for health or religious reasons.

According to one legend, his death was a consequence of his hatefulness to beans. He so hated the beans that when some thugs attacked him, he could not escape because the only exit was a field planted with beans.

Ludwig van Beethoven always had a sink with water at hand
Beethoven's routine was as dramatic as his compositions. He wrote compositions, and in the meantime he had frequent visits to the full sink. Ideas came when he walked around the room and then poured a pile of water on himself and on the floor.

Honore de Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day
Balzac probably owes its productivity to the huge amount of caffeine he consumed daily. But the habit had its own cost - he often suffered from abdominal pain, headaches and high blood pressure.

Igor Stravinsky stood on his head
Russian-American composer Igor Stravinsky stood on the head 15 minutes each morning to understand his mind.

Edgar Allan Po wrote on scrolls
Edgar Allan Poe often wrote on thin paper papers, which he then stacked together and bended them into scrolls for easier storage. He thought that this way was better because he was faster and simpler to work and looked more terrible.

Leonardo da Vinci and Nikola Tesla believed that sleep was not needed
Leonardo da Vinci and Nikola Tesla had eccentric ways of resting. Leonardo staggered for an hour or two every 24 hours, while Tesla was always resting for 2 hours a day.

Tesla was doing exercises on his toes
Tesla had another strange habit. Before sleeping each night, he rolled his fingers to his feet 100 times because he believed that this exercise improves circulation in the brain.

Nietzche wrote standing
Nietzsche once rebuked Gustav Flaubert in a letter because the writer wants to sit while writing. In his letter, he wrote: "I caught you nihilist, the sitting life is a sin against the Holy Spirit. Only the thoughts that we get as we move have a value. "