MOST KNOWN DISPUTES IN HISTORY

In the old days, people loved betting. It was a real gentlemanly occupation. Some of the bets were simply global.
And so before you the most powerful and best betting of the world.

1. Pearl Cocktail
   Probably Cleopatra and Mark Antony concluded the most ancient bet. Cleopatra made a bet with Mark that in one evening she would be able to drink wine to as many as 10 million sesterces. The prospects for betting were very attractive to Mark, and he agreed to accept him. But naturally so clever and insidious woman cheated. At the beginning of the dinner, a glass of wine vinegar was put in front of her, which she was supposed to drink, but the woman had her own stunts — she took out a large black pearl from her ear, which she quietly threw into the glass. Calcium carbonate, which weakened it, entered into reaction with acetic acid. At the end of the dinner, the resulting cocktail was easy to drink, which Cleopatra did with a smile, and Mark had no choice but to accept his defeat.

1. Get into the White House
   This bet was simply impossible to win. Well-known basketball player Shaquille O'Neal argued with his friend that he could go to the White House to Obama without an appointment. After giving the phone to the coach, he took a taxi to the White House. The guards recognized him, said they were very happy to see him, but were not allowed into the White House. Offended O'Neill on Twitter wrote “why ??? Why didn't they let me in? ”Because of his loss, the basketball player had to be wrung out 1000 times, but the coach allowed him to split this amount into several approaches.

1. Balzac women
   There is no documented fact about this bet, but there are many prerequisites that such a bet did exist.
   Balzac was famous in his circle of people also because he was a strong connoisseur of female souls. He often liked to meet new ladies and spend time with them. Once he walked with his friend in the park, and two completely different girls were ahead. One was a blonde with an excellent figure, the other was a brunette, and she looked very casually with a silly hat on her head. Balzac decided to make a bet with a friend that the blonde is this stocky Parisian who has no children and is not married, besides leads a very chic lifestyle, and the blond is her maid who has a child (as it happened in his youth ), and now she is barely making ends meet. His friend was shocked that Balzac would be able to guess all this, and agreed to a bet. Earlier, Balzac did manage to guess such details of the lives of unfamiliar women, but, as it turned out, not this time. Balzac walked absolutely calmly to meet the ladies. But the more he talked with them, the more he changed his face. It turned out that the blonde was generally German, who had a wealthy husband and two children, and the blond woman turned out to be a native French woman and actress of a very frivolous genre. Balzac was never so mistaken ...

1. Lunar bet
   At the time Neal Armstrong made a giant step for all of humanity, one very modest but successful Briton was especially happy. His name was David Trelfol, because on that wonderful day he was just unusually lucky. Nine years ago, in 1960, he thought at a bookmaker’s office what he would be interested in to put 10 pounds (at that time it was good money). The most unreal and crazy was to bet that in the next 10 years, people will go to the moon. The stakes were 1 in 1000. And he bet and won! But fortune is very insidious, for his winning money he bought an incredibly luxurious sports car, which he crashed on that same year.

1. Around the World for ...
   A reporter from News of the World, Nelli Bligh, decided to make a bet with her editor that she could repeat the literary bet of Phileas Fogg from the book Around the World in 80 Days. In 1888 she went on a world tour with a small suitcase and 200 pounds in her pocket.
   Cosmopolitan magazine also became interested in the question, having exposed its correspondent: only she had to go around the globe, moving already in the opposite direction. As a result, they made a bet, which of these girls will be the first to return to the point of departure.
   Its editor opened the sweepstakes, there were a lot of bets, in the end Nelly won, after all, having arrived 8 days ahead of schedule. On her way, of course, there were not so many adventures, but there were many things: missed flights, terrible storms, as well as visiting lepers in China, and of course buying a monkey in Singapore.