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Many people have what we might call a healthy appetite, but as long as you can restrain yourself, there’s nothing wrong with indulging every now and again. However, these next characters didn’t even know the meaning of the word “restraint.” They gave into their greed and gluttony every chance they had.

10 Diamond Jim Brady

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To sample life’s tastiest offerings, you need a fat wallet as well as a fat belly. James Buchanan Brady, the American railroad tycoon, fit that requirement perfectly. After amassing great wealth thanks to his rail supplies company, Brady became known for two things. One was his love of expensive jewelry (hence the name), and the other was his love of food.

Over the years, Brady’s appetite has attained almost mythological status. Just going through his breakfast menu, we have pancakes, muffins, grits, bread, eggs, chops, steaks, fried potatoes, and entire pitchers of orange juice. This would have been followed soon after by a light snack of several dozen clams until lunch. Here, Brady would eat more clams along with several lobsters, crabs, beef, and pie. There came another snack during the afternoon, followed by dinner, which was usually the biggest meal of the day: steak, a few dozen oysters, a dozen crabs, half a dozen lobsters, soup, and, for dessert, a few pounds of bonbons and a tray of pastries.

Books detailing his eating habits sometimes varied his menu but never the quantities. It is likely that his appetite has been exaggerated over the decades if only for the fact that it seems impossible for a man (or any other land mammal) to consume so much food. Even so, Jim’s appetite was certainly voracious. As New York restaurateur George Rector said of him, “He was the best 25 customers I ever had.”

9 Elvis Presley

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Although Elvis might be remembered for his music, he was also quite the glutton. Anyone who remembers him in the later stage of his career will know just how great an effect all the years of food and drugs had on him.

Elvis always loved his fatty foods. His favorite was the famous peanut butter and banana sandwich, which was fried in butter for added taste (and calories). Most restaurants that serve this sandwich called it “the Elvis.”

One restaurant in Denver made a fancier version of the sandwich called “Fool’s Gold” using an entire Italian loaf, containing peanut butter, jelly, and a pound of bacon. It cost $50 back in the 1970s. One night, Presley had a craving and took his entourage to his private jet. They flew from Memphis to Denver so Elvis could eat some “Fool’s Gold” to satisfy his hunger. The cost of this food run was reportedly somewhere around $16,000.

8 Henry VIII

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Arguably the most famous glutton in history, Henry VIII supposedly spent most of his time at the dinner table, occasionally taking a break between meals to rule over England and marry another wife. But is this fact or myth?

Actually, Henry did always like his food. However, when he was a young man, he was very active. He frequently engaged in hunting, jousting, dancing, and wrestling, so he managed to keep fit no matter how much he ate. However, his physique started going downhill after a jousting accident left him crippled and unable to exercise. Despite his new infirmity, his appetite did not diminish at all, so he ended up as the rotund ruler he is known as today. Supposedly, during his later years, he measured up to 1.4 meters (4.5 ft) at the waist.

To be fair, whenever Henry ate, so did everyone else in his court. He became very famous for throwing lavish dinner parties attended by hundreds of people. These parties got so big that the kitchen at the Hampton Court Palace had to be extended to fill 55 rooms. Henry’s kitchen staff comprised over 200 people, who prepared sumptuous 14-course meals for Henry and his dinner guests.

7 Elagabalus

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Elagabalus was one of the worst rulers ancient Rome ever saw. He ruled for only four years, between the ages of 14 and 18. Then the Senate, the people of Rome, and even his own Praetorian Guard had enough of him, assassinated him and his mother, and threw his body in the Tiber.

During his short reign, Elagabalus indulged in all of the excesses of the world, while finding new ways to infuriate Romans everywhere. He instituted the worship of a Syrian sun god, appointed himself high priest, and engaged in all kinds of depraved sexual behavior. He enjoyed sex with men and women (mostly men) and dressed as a woman to fulfill his fantasies.

However, his lavish feasts truly showed how extravagant and gluttonous his tastes were. Elagabalus and his guests sat on silver beds while curly-haired boys fanned perfume in their direction. The menu included peacocks’ tongues, sows’ breasts with truffles, dormice baked in poppies, African snails, sea wolves, and live thrushes stuffed inside a cooked pig. Elagabalus also loved brains. An assortment of brains from various birds such as thrushes, peacocks, parakeets, and pheasants was present at every meal.

6 Siderophagus

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An 18th-century showman called Siderophagus (“the Eater of Iron”) had an amazing act. He claimed to be able to eat and digest any kind of iron presented to him. He encouraged people to bring to him keys, pokers, bolts, and whatever else they had.

Showbiz was in the family, and his wife often performed alongside him with a similar act. She was able to drink incredibly toxic liquids, specializing in aqua fortis. Like her husband, she encouraged people to bring their own concoctions of whatever strength they desired. Their show was quite popular, and the pair even had a special lighter version for the poor. They only charged half-price, and Siderophagus would consume small iron items such as wires and needles, while his wife drank weak liquors and wine.

It’s hard to say how much of their act was actually genuine. They never performed in the same city for very long. At the very least, his wife definitely never drank aqua fortis (or nitric acid, as we like to call it). It’s a highly corrosive acid, and she would have certainly died. However, their poor-version show where Siderophagus chewed on wire (and his wife basically just got drunk on stage) seems more plausible.

5 Francis Battalia

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Francis Battalia would have been an average and unassuming person were it not for one very odd craving—stones.

In his time during the late 18th century, Battalia was quite the oddity. He attracted attention from medical professionals as well as other reputable sources who doubted Battalia’s claims until they went to see his show. There, they would see him swallow plates full of rocks and gravel. Afterward, he would shake violently so people could hear the stones rustling inside his stomach.

Advertisements for his show claimed that Battalia had his appetite for rocks ever since he was a little child, and his wet nurse used to mix pebbles into his gruel. This was most likely nonsense, but, as odd as it seemed, Battalia actually had some competition. Another performer simply known as the Stone Eater had a very similar act. He would take spoons full of pebbles and chew them loudly between his teeth.

As if that isn’t weird enough, an even stranger account is given by a doctor named Bulwer. To ensure that Battalia wasn’t a fraud, Bulwer spent 24 hours by his side to check whether Battalia really did eat stones. Besides confirming this notion, Bulwer also noted that Battalia’s waste was like a sandy substance similar to that of dissolved and crumbled stone.

4 M. Dufour

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Not a lot is known about the Frenchman M. Dufour. He was a contemporary of Battalia and also turned his gluttony into a successful show. However, stones were usually not on his menu, which was a lot more varied and exotic.

His most famous performance came in 1792 at a special banquet held just for him, a packed house admiring his gastronomical prowess. He started out with a dish of asps boiled in oil served with a salad of pricks and thistles. However, these were just the hors d’oeuvres. They were soon followed by servings of bat, owl, rat, mole, and tortoise. For dessert, M. Dufour enjoyed a dish of toads mixed with spiders, caterpillars, flies, and crickets.

Normally, this would have been the end of the show, but on this occasion, M. Dufour decided to give his audience a rare encore. He swallowed all the candles sitting on the tables. Some of them were still lit, but Dufour solved this problem by quickly washing them down with some brandy.

3 Thomas Eclin

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Thomas Eclin never achieved the success experienced by eaters such as Dufour or Battalia. He was actually described in his own day as being an imbecile Irishman who was, nevertheless, “remarkable for his vivacity and drollery in the low way.” He had much less ambition, and, being a drunk, he was satisfied as long as he had plenty of gin and tobacco. In order to feed his habit, he was willing to do more or less anything that attracted a paying crowd. Oftentimes, this meant eating a wide range of unpleasant things.

He specialized in eating live animals, cats in particular. However, if other financial opportunities presented themselves, he would take them without hesitation. One time, he jumped into the Thames in freezing weather.

2 The Great Eater Of Kent

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With a name like that, you should expect great things from Nicholas Wood.

The 16th-century Englishman built quite a career on his gluttony. His skills made him famous all throughout England, and he often performed shows at private parties hosted by the country’s elite. Some of these parties were even dedicated completely to him. Famed poet John Taylor even wrote a poem about him titled “The Great Eater of Kent, or Part of the Admirable Teeth and Stomach Exploits of Nicholas Wood.”

At an event hosted by Sir Warham St. Ledger at Leeds Castle, Wood reportedly ate a dinner fit for eight men. At a party of Lord Wotton, he ate two dozen rabbits. John Taylor became aware of him when he saw the Great Eater devouring everything there was to eat at an inn in Kent. Thinking that he could make a fortune with a show like that, Taylor convinced Wood to come to London where he would attract huge crowds. Wood agreed initially, but when he arrived in London, he got cold feet. He had been embarrassed, tricked, and mocked in the past and he was worried that things would just get worse in London. He eventually disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again.

1 Antoine Langulet

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Everyone on this list had very ravenous and gluttonous appetites, but they all pale in comparison to 19th-century Frenchman Antoine Langulet. His preferred menu was so incredibly repulsive that it got him committed to an asylum for the criminally insane.

By his own admission, he was used to eating very disgusting things ever since he was a little boy. It wasn’t a matter of not having access to anything else. He actually enjoyed the taste. Rotten meat was his favorite, taken right off putrid and decomposing animal carcasses.

As an adult, he stayed locked inside during the daytime. At night, he roamed the streets of Paris looking for tasty morsels. He scavenged the sewers and gutters, retrieving offal and other filthy meat. He used his friendship with the Parisian horse knackers to secure food in the form of the sickly horses that they had to put down.

Although completely vile, Langulet could probably have avoided incarceration if he didn’t start looking for food in a new place—cemeteries. He refrained from doing so for as long as he could, but he eventually gave into his cravings and began digging up bodies. He would eat as much as he could on the spot (intestines were his favorite), stuff as much as he could into his pockets for later, and leave.

+ Erysichthon Of Thessaly

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Erysichthon might have been a mythological Greek character, but an appetite so legendary deserves special attention. We know of his exploits from one of the greatest poets of ancient Rome, Ovid.

In his masterpiece Metamorphoses, we learn Erysichthon was a king of Thessaly who showed little regard for the gods. One day, he decided to cut down a forest belonging to Ceres, goddess of agriculture and fertility. In the middle of that forest was a sacred oak tree filled with strings of wool and wreaths of flowers as symbols of every prayer Ceres had granted.

Erysichthon commanded his men to chop down the tree, but they refused. He then grabbed an axe and cut it down himself. While doing this, he struck down a dryad by accident, and with her dying words, she uttered a curse. As punishment for his actions, Ceres commanded Famine to rest inside the king. Erysichthon soon started feeling a hunger which could not be satisfied no matter how much he ate.

Even though he was a rich king, Erysichthon soon found himself trading all of his possessions for food. When these were not enough, he even sold his daughter into slavery. However, it was no use. The hunger kept getting bigger and bigger. Erysichthon eventually met his demise at his own hands when he began to “tear at his limbs and gnaw them with his teeth, and the unhappy man fed, little by little, on his own body.”

As weird as it sounds, this list made Radu a little hungry. Check out some of the other interesting stuff he writes at GeeKiez. He also occasionally says stuff on that Twitter thing.

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10 Innocuous Things Created By Eccentric Mad Men https://listorati.com/10-innocuous-things-created-by-eccentric-mad-men/ https://listorati.com/10-innocuous-things-created-by-eccentric-mad-men/#respond Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:07:51 +0000 https://listorati.com/10-innocuous-things-created-by-eccentric-mad-men/

Everything you come in contact with has its own story. Familiarity has drained some items of any interest. However, when looking at even the most mundane things, there is almost always something surreal.

Just because that item is banal doesn’t mean that its history is. The people behind even the most mundane things lived lives that were anything but. Here’s hoping these dark and disturbing backstories can bring some excitement to these commonplace things.

10 A Stagecoach Accident Created Movies And A Murder

In 1860, Eadweard Muybridge was traveling through Texas on a stagecoach. When it crashed, he and the other passengers were thrown out. After hitting his head, Muybridge suffered from double vision, sensory impairments, and confused thinking.

To recuperate, his doctor told him to take up a new hobby to recover. Muybridge decided to get into photography. With bold and deadly stunts, he earned a reputation as one of the most acclaimed photographers of the era.

His injuries grew worse. In 1874, he discovered that his wife, Flora Stone, was having an affair with a mutual friend. Muybridge shot the man at pointblank range, killing him instantly.

Unsure if his wife’s child was his own or that of her lover, Muybridge put his own kid up for adoption. People who knew Muybridge said that his eccentric behavior was caused by the crash. Though he plead insanity on the murder charge, he was acquitted on the grounds that murder was justified.[1]

Muybridge’s exoneration was great news for Leland Stanford, the man who had raised money for Muybridge’s defense. The men’s relationship was about to change the world.

A prominent horse gambler, Stanford wanted to know if a horse in mid-trot takes all four feet off the ground. From rows of cameras placed along the track, the stills showed every motion of the horse. Replayed in sequence, the images came to life and revealed a momentary hold of all four legs off the ground. This little bet inspired the forerunner of the motion picture.

9 Slinky’s Inventor Abandoned His Wealth And Family To Join A Bolivian Cult

The Slinky’s origin is as whimsical as its iconic childhood status would suggest. In a happy accident, Richard James watched a spring walk down a pair of stairs. His children stood by laughing in delight.

Two years later, James showcased the newly debuted Slinky as the hot new Christmas gift of 1945. Despite its simplistic background, the Slinky has become one of the quintessential toys in American history for over 70 years.

Richard James did not have as amusing a story. The toy circuit was apparently a very scandalous place. Flushed with Slinky money, he became a serial adulterer. Remorseful for his affairs, James wanted to find religion again. He started sending his money to Episcopalian groups. His religious curiosity led him to join stricter and stricter faiths.[2]

For a man who brought so much joy to children everywhere, James could not bring happiness to his own children. In 1960, James abandoned his six kids, who ranged from two to 18 years old. Richard James’s wife, Betty, had to raise their children on her own while James was busy sending all of Slinky’s profits to a religious cult in Bolivia.

None of James’s kids saw their father in the last 14 years of his life. The only communication was letters urging them to repent and join him in Bolivia. By shepherding the company in her husband’s absence, Betty personally saved the company from bankruptcy and let the toy entertain children to this day.

8 The Mathematician-Turned-Magician Behind The Decimal Point

John Napier was a paradox. Both a man of logic and superstition, he drove humanity forward by looking to the past. Perceived as consulting in the dark arts, Napier was an early mathematician who formulated the logarithm and invented the idea of a decimal point. All his advancements were grounded in his theological beliefs of the impending Apocalypse.

Reading the Book of Revelation, Napier calculated that the Apocalypse was set to occur in 1688 or 1700. Apparently, he allowed a little wiggle room for the end of the world.

Others in the community perceived Napier’s profound faith in Armageddon as evidence that he was a wizard. Convinced that the end times were imminent, Napier experimented with a proto death ray that harnessed and reflected the power of the Sun to burn ships.

His reputation was slandered, but his own eccentricities did not help. Napier would walk around in an all-black gown decorated with skulls. His ensemble was completed with a black pet rooster and black spider crawling on him. Never denying rumors about his ability to communicate with animals, he fostered beliefs that his rooster could read minds or that he (Napier) could control pigeons.

Speculative rumors led to his most daring exploit. Noted treasure hunter and pirate Robert Logan hired Napier to discover the buried treasure of Fast Castle.

Believing that Napier’s sorcery could easily locate the chest, Logan signed a contract to storm the castle. Little came of this exploit, which was good for Napier. Had he gone through with the heist, the notorious outlaw would have likely killed the genius, setting mathematics progress back for years.[3]

7 The Toy Made By A Nazi Used To Fight Nazis

William Gruber was obsessed with mushrooms. He wanted the rest of the world to join him. In Gruber’s fantasy, people around the world would use his device to educate themselves on detailed depictions of flora and fauna. The world eventually grew to love his invention, but he never got to revel in the success. He was too busy being ostracized as a Nazi spy.

Raised in post–World War I Germany, Gruber was swept up in the Nazi fervor. Even after he moved to Oregon in 1924, he still proudly supported the burgeoning Nazi Party.

While photographing Oregon’s natural beauty, Gruber had a chance encounter with the honeymooning Harold Graves. Fascinated by Gruber’s bizarre technique of taking simultaneous photos with two different cameras to create a 3-D image, Graves thought that Gruber should make a machine to view these images up close. So they formed a partnership.

In 1939, Graves debuted their project at the New York World’s Fair. It was named the View-Master.

The outbreak of war later that year was not enough to shake Gruber’s Nazi allegiance. The FBI was worried about this vocal and prominent Nazi advocate with constant business connections with a German lens manufacturer, so they froze all of Gruber’s assets. Then the government banished him to Idaho.

Ironically, that same government was about to buy more than 10,000 View-Masters. Military servicemen used the reels as a necessary educational tool to quickly familiarize themselves with equipment or locations.

Returning to the product’s educational roots, Gruber’s last association with View-Master was a macabre project known as “A Stereoscopic Atlas of the Human Anatomy.” Instead of stills of beloved Disney characters, the reels were filled with dissected cadavers. However, Gruber had no control as the View-Master became an iconic symbol of baby boomer childhood instead of the educational tool he foresaw.[4]

6 Milton Cooper Wrote Of Aliens And The Language Of Hip-Hop

Serving as an Army foot soldier in the Vietnam War, Milton William Cooper personally saw the government lie to the American public. And if you believe him, he also saw extraterrestrials. UFOlogists heralded Cooper as a government official turned whistle-blower. Others dismissed him as a plagiarist. No matter his credibility, Cooper was launched as a major figure in conspiracy circles.

In 1991, that culminated with Behold a Pale Horse. His book combines traditional conspiracy theories embedded with a new strain of paranoia. Subjects were as varied as the beliefs that the government created the AIDS virus and John F. Kennedy was assassinated because he was about to reveal the existence of aliens.

Readers have interpreted the meandering manifesto in multiple ways. Seeing the text as a call to violent insurrection, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. A different type of explosion went off in Harlem. Stoking the already-present distrust of the government, Cooper’s theories help launch the ’90s artistic boom in hip-hop.

As an omnipresent force in Harlem, Behold a Pale Horse was simply called “The Book” by many readers. Influenced by Black Islam’s call to serve as “lyrical assassins,” many of the most consequential rappers of the ’90s got their start by referencing Cooper’s book.

Notable Rappers who sneaked in nods to Cooper include the Wu-Tang Clan, Big Daddy Kane, Busta Rhymes, Tupac Shakur, Nas, Rakim, Gang Starr, Public Enemy, Mobb Deep, and Jay-Z. Modern hip-hop traces its roots through Cooper’s text, even if he would not live long enough to see the results.

As of the 1990s, Cooper’s fears of government persecution were no longer just a theory. In 1998, he was charged with tax evasion. Two years later, a bloody altercation with his neighbor landed Cooper with an aggravated assault charge.

Labeled a “major fugitive,” United States Marshals arrived at Cooper’s house on November 5, 2001. Vowing to never be taken alive, Cooper shot an officer in the head. Prophetic until the end, Cooper was shot in the chest and died.[5]

5 The Sex Doll By A Sex Addict Became A Childhood Staple

Despite being one of the most wholesome toys of all time, Barbie dolls have always been controversial. Many parents have worried that the doll’s unrealistic body figure is a bad role model for little girls’ body image.

Barbie’s exaggerated dimensions were meant to be sexualized from the beginning. While vacationing in Switzerland, inventor Ruth Handler found a Bild-Lilli doll. These dolls were pocket-size models of a namesake call girl from a German comic strip.

The Bild-Lilli dolls were risque trophies handed to women on dates for the men to make their intentions clear. Handler brought one of these dolls for her new business partner, Jack Ryan.

He was an odd fit for the toy world. Ryan initially set out to be a rocket designer. Using his engineering know-how, he modified the dolls with movable joints or individual fingers.

Unable to pay him an engineering fee, Handler arranged to give Ryan a small royalty for every toy sold. As Barbie took over, his contract made him extremely wealthy. He used that money to fund all types of bizarre purchases including his own fire engine and a castle surrounded by a moat.

Described by others as a “sex addict,” Ryan’s castle featured a sex dungeon covered in black fox fur. His insatiable sexual appetite was part of the reason that he married five times, including once to Zsa Zsa Gabor.[6]

Sex was far from Ryan’s only vice. He also used copious amounts of alcohol and cocaine. In part due to his antics, Ryan was ousted from Mattel. This exile only exacerbated his already-debilitating cocaine addiction.

The cocaine took a mental and physical toll on his body. His drug use was a factor in a stroke that left him crippled. A few years later, he killed himself at age 64.

4 The Cult In The Kitchen

Considering the rest of his family, John Humphrey Noyes really stands apart. His father served in the US House of Representatives. His cousin was President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Apparently, the late 1800s would let it slide, but it might make the news today if the president’s cousin was running a religious sex cult. In his own small way, Noyes’s accomplishments affected daily life just as much as his cousin’s did.

In 1831, Noyes experienced a religious conversion. Citing a prophecy that the millennium would arrive within a generation of Jesus’s crucifixion, Noyes calculated that the Earth was redeemed in AD 70. All these generations later, Noyes was now free from sin.

His interpretation slowly gathered his own wave of followers. Together, the congregation of 250 formed a burgeoning community to recreate their own Heaven on Earth. Motivated by Jesus’s call to renounce Earthly possessions, the community shared everything.

Economic and physical possessions were divided among all the converts. This included romantic partners. All the men were married to all the women, and vice versa. Group sex was common and encouraged.

No longer comfortable with the unregulated sexual openness, Vermont authorities forced the organization out in 1847. In 1848, the group resettled in Oneida, New York.

Now dubbed the Oneida Perfectionists, the community had to find a way to fund themselves. They tried multiple activities including farming and sawmilling. The most successful was producing steel beaver traps for the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Following the collapse of the fur trade, the Oneida Perfectionists continued blacksmithing with a line of silverware. In 1881, the cult collapsed, but the silverware company survived. Today, Oneida Silverware is a mainstay of china cabinets everywhere.[7]

3 Frederick Hoelzel Crapped Out A Masterpiece

Diet yogurts, McDonald’s hamburgers, and dairy products are but a fraction of the common foods containing cellulose flour. Food manufacturers add cellulose to cheapen the processing price.

With almost no vitamin value of its own, cellulose flour sates appetites without adding any extra calories. Dietitians may rue the invention now for its lack of healthy properties, but fellow nutritionist Frederick Hoelzel had other priorities on his mind when he discovered the product.

Everybody eats cellulose flour, but nobody should eat like Hoelzel. In the 1920s, he became a minor celebrity in Chicago for his remarkable stomach.

Ingesting inedible things like gravel, glass, feathers, ball bearings, and gold pellets, he recorded the amount of time they took to poop out. To put it mildly, it was a painful process. Self-sacrifice is admirable, but Hoelzel’s research had limited applicability.

Despite no one ever needing to know how long it takes to poop cotton, Hoelzel went ahead and tried. Probably a welcome relief from the gravel, he grew to love the taste of cotton-based surgical gauze. As a new favorite, the cellulose in the cotton got him interested in looking into further uses of the compound, eventually leading to the flour.[8]

2 Eric Gill’s Fonts Are Good; Everything Else About Him Is Not

If one turns on BBC World News, brushes off an old VHS tape of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Toy Story, rides down the London Underground, shops at a Tommy Hilfiger, grabs a copy of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff, or reads any Penguin Publishing classic, he would see Gill Sans font.

More celebrated for his sculpting abilities, Eric Gill turned that artistic sensibility into one of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world. Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, he was repeatedly acclaimed as one the best artists of his generation. Upon his death, Gill’s diaries revealed jarring accounts of his private life that complicate the question of delineating the art and the artist.

Gill’s sexual improprieties were rooted in his Catholicism and deep shame of his sin. If he felt sinful, he never atoned. Instead, he lived a life of increasingly amoral actions.

Gill’s sins started early with lifelong incestuous affairs with his two sisters. The affairs only ended when one of his sisters died. Modeling one of his statues after what his sister looked like while they were having sex, the affair is inseparable from his sculptures. (There is some question about whether he had an incestuous relationship with one or both sisters.)

However, Gill’s incest did not end with his sisters. When two of his three daughters were still children, he raped them. In diary entries, he relished the disgusting deeds by graphically describing his own children’s anatomy.

No diary entry highlights the extent of Gill’s depravity more than the ones mentioning his love of fellating his dogs. With all the incest, rape, pedophilia, and bestiality, maybe Toy Story should choose a different logo.[9]

1 W.C. Minor’s Life Cannot Be Defined

It is hard to know where W.C. Minor’s name should appear in the dictionary. His heavily bearded face could appear next to words as varied as “genius,” “dedicated,” “murderer,” or “insane.” Whichever word you choose, Minor’s work certainly played his role in history.

A Yale graduate turned Union surgeon in the Civil War, Minor was poised to do great things. Watching the contorted bodies burn in the Battle of the Wilderness changed all of that.

With the forest in flames, Minor burned a deserter himself with a scalding hot “D.” The Irish ancestry of the branded deserter damaged Minor in turn. Haunted with new psychological apparitions of the Irish nationalist group the Fenian Brotherhood, Minor’s mind degraded.

His mental unrest first manifested itself with a more acceptable vice—sex. Living in the red-light district of his town, Minor visited brothels almost daily. Decades later, he could no longer control his urges. Now wanting to have sex with young boys, Minor chopped off his penis. He used the exact knife that was about to cut out definitions in ancient manuscripts.

Instead of seeking treatment, Minor tried to murder his hallucinations. George Merrett was sadly caught in the crosshairs. A bullet that Minor intended for his Irish specters accidentally hit local businessman Merrett. Seven weeks later, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Institutionalized in the Broadmoor asylum, he reached out to the widowed Eliza Merrett. Their relationship grew. Each week, the two would exchange their favorite books. Buried inside one of the books was a pamphlet mentioning that the Oxford English Dictionary was looking for volunteers.

Thanks to Merrett’s contributions, Minor had a collection of thousands of books. Scouring the texts, he found the etymological roots for hundreds of words. His contributions to the dictionary were incalculable.

In the preface of the fifth volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, the publisher thanked Minor for enhancing “our illustration of the literary history of individual words, phrases, and constructions . . . so enormous have been Dr. Minor’s contributions during the past 17 or 18 years that we could easily illustrate the last four centuries from his quotations alone.”[10]

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Handbags, high heels and g-strings are considered female items today. What if we told you those things were originally made for men? That is true. These items and several others were created for men but somehow ended up switching between genders.

There is no single reason why the switch happened. It was sometimes for practical reasons—like after someone discovered that an item was more useful for women than men. At other times, it was all about the money. Manufacturers have switched their target market from men to women just to make more sales.

See Also: Top 10 Animals That Were Originally Called Other Names

8 Bra Clasp


Famous writer, Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens) was never a fan of suspenders. For the unaware, suspenders (aka suit braces) are those long straps that go over our shoulders to help hold our trousers up. Twain considered suspenders uncomfortable and went on to invent a new product to replace them. That product is the hook and eye.

The hook and eye is a small metal fastener that held trousers securely to the waist—the sort of thing we use belts for today. Men are not familiar with it since we never really got to use it. Women know it quite well because it is the same material that holds their bra together. Yes, those tiny metal hooks at the back (and sometimes, front) of bras was invented for men.

Mark Twain received a patent for the hook and eyes on December 19, 1871. As he wrote in his patent application, the material was an “improvement in adjustable and detachable straps for garments”. It was used in shirts, underwear and corsets before finding permanent use in brassieres.

7 High Heels


High heels are considered one of the most feminine items out there. They are so closely associated with women that one would think they were invented for women. That is wrong. High heels were created for men. Women only joined the high heel bandwagon in the 17th century.

The first high heels were made for male Persian soldiers back in the 10th century. The heel allowed them lock their feet in their stirrups (those devices horse riders put their legs) while riding their horses. This improved their balance and accuracy when they wanted to shoot arrows or attack their opponent with some other weapon while on the move.

High heels only reached Europe in the 17th century where it was promptly adopted by the male aristocrats since it made them appear taller and more intimidating. In one notable incident, King Louis XIV of France distributed high heeled shoes to the male members of his cabinet in 1673.

Women started wearing high heels because it made their feet appear smaller. At the time, most women wore long skirts that reached their ankles. The high heeled shoes raised the mid and rear parts of their legs so that it was hidden under their skirts. Only the front part of their feet was visible, giving people the impression that they had small feet.

Nevertheless, male and female high heels slowly began to diverge as women made their heels thinner. Women also streamlined the front of their shoes so that it appeared smaller and pointy. Meanwhile, men maintained the original high heels with wide heels and flat fronts. Men dumped high heels in the 18th century because it was already considered a feminine item.

6 Handbags


The handbag originated from the loose, small bags or pouches people carried around centuries ago. Clothes did not have pockets at the time and people created the pouches to keep their money and whatever else they had with them safe. The pouches were often attached to a belt worn around the waist.

In the 16th century, women dumped the pouches for small pieces of metal called chatelaines. They hung their keys and sewing materials on the chatelaines, which they hung under their skirts. However, women dumped the chatelaines for reticules in the 18th century. The reticules (also called indispensibles) were small pouches that were held by a drawstring.

The modern handbag appeared in the early 1900s. The name was coined from the hand held bags men carried around. Fashion designers of the day used the male handbags to create handbags for women. These feminine handbags had fasteners and were separated into compartments to make them more practical. The male handbag soon gave way to the female handbag.

5 Thongs


Thongs are a category of underwear or swimwear connected together by a narrow piece of cloth. When used as underwear, women prefer them over regular panties because they do not create those infamous panty lines. The g-string itself is a kind of thong. However, it is differentiated from thongs by the use of thin strings in place of the wider fabric used in thongs.

The first thong appeared In Africa in 42,000 BC. Thongs later reappeared in ancient Egypt, Greece and Crete in 1570 B.C. and Japan in 250 A.D. Like today’s thongs, they all covered the private parts while leaving the buttocks exposed. However, unlike today’s thongs, they were often worn by men. Thongs later went out of fashion until they reappeared in the 1800s.

This time, it appeared as the jockstrap, which men used to protect their privates during sports. The modern thong made its first appearance at the 1939 New York World Trade Fair after Fiorello La Guardi, the Mayor of New York, ordered female nude dancers to cover themselves up. The dancers turned to thongs, which covered their privates while still leaving enough skin exposed to keep their audience entertained.

4 Disposable Menstrual Pads


Reusable menstrual pads were not a thing until World War I. Years before the war, some executives of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation—which made the first disposable pad—were touring Europe when they came across some new material made from pulp and paper. Cellucotton, as it was called, soaked in five times more water than regular cotton while costing half as much.

The executives took cellucotton back to the United States. However, Kimberly-Clark did not find any use for it until World War I came along. Cellucotton was mass produced for use in dressing injured soldiers. However, the female nurses treating the wounded soldiers soon discovered that it worked well for soaking up their menstrual discharge.

Kimberly-Clark never paid attention to that until the market for cellucotton dried up right after the war. In 1920, it rebranded cellucotton and sold it as Kotex (from cotton texture), which became the first brand of disposable menstrual pads. Poor sales later made executives repurpose the product again into Kleenex, the first brand of facial tissue that hit the market in 1924.

Pictured is a German soldier using what would eventually become a menstrual pad as a face mask!

3 Stockings


Stockings are another clothing material that between switched genders. They are exclusively worn by women these days even though the first stockings were made for men. Women only started wearing stockings in the 18th century. Men have been wearing them since the 9th century. Men of the upper class generally wore white or colored stockings while poorer men only wore black.

For the unaware, stockings (also called hoses) are those close-fitting clothes that cover the feet and part of the legs. A variant of it is the pantyhose, which is a combination of stockings with panties. Men never wore the pantyhose. To avoid confusion, stockings, pantyhose, tights and breeches all belong to a category of clothes called hosiery.

Things slowly changed between the 16th and 20th centuries when stockings switched from being a masculine item to feminine. The period is even called the “The Dark Ages of Tights” for this reason. By the 19th century, stockings had become so closely associated with women that men stopped wearing them completely.

2 Skinny Jeans


Skinny jeans share the same history as jeans. The first jean was created by Jacob Davis in 1873. However, the invention was closely linked to Levi Strauss, a German immigrant who moved to New York in 1851. Levi worked in his brother’s textile store until 1853 when he opened a textile store in San Francisco.

This was during the California Gold Rush when lots of men worked in the mines. One day, a tailor called Jacob Davis walked into his store and requested for a tough textile material that could withstand heavy work. Levi sold him some denim material, which Davis turned it into the first jean trouser.

The product was so successful that other miners started requesting for similar trousers. Davis partnered with Levi to patent the jean. Levi later founded Levi Strauss & Co. to mass produce jean trousers.

Jeans were still considered a male clothing item until 1930 when Levi Strauss & Co. created the Lady Levi’s® Lot 701, which was the first jeans exclusively made for women. The jean was slim and reached the upper waist. However, it slowly got smaller as Levi moved from marketing it to older women to younger women.

1 Everything Pink


A century ago, boys wore pink and girls wore blue. Today, it is in the reverse. How did the color switch happen?

The whole thing began in the 1900s when the first colored baby clothes appeared. Before then, it was almost impossible to tell the sex of a baby at a glance since every baby wore white dresses. White was the preferred color because it could be bleached to remove any kind of stain. Boys also wore dresses because they were more practical than shirts and shorts.

Colored dresses only got popular at the turn of the century. However, no color was associated with any gender. By the time World War I came along, it was generally agreed that boys wore pink and girls wore blue. Boys wore pink because of its powerful appearance. Blue was preferred for girls because it was considered prettier.

Boys only dumped dresses for shirts and shorts at the end of World War II. However, boys still wore pink and girls wore blue. The real switch occurred in the 1960s when supporters of female liberation movements began dressing their daughters in pink over concerns that girls were being conditioned into behaving effeminately by the kinds of clothes they wore.

Meanwhile, boys slowly switched away from pink to blue. The garment industry delivered the final blow around 1985 when they started marketing pink clothes to girls and blue to boys. The garment industry was not interested in gender equality or whatever. They just wanted to force parents into buying new clothes instead of sharing clothes between babies of different genders.

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Top 10 Peaceful Men https://listorati.com/top-10-peaceful-men/ https://listorati.com/top-10-peaceful-men/#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:17:02 +0000 https://listorati.com/top-10-peaceful-men-listverse/

Comments on the “Evil People” Lists have often called for a list of great people. I have researched 10 outstandingly good men, many of whom are very famous. I have listed them here. As it was said in The “Top 10 Most Evil Men List”, Evil people are abundant. On the other hand, good is a little harder to find. If you disagree with the list, or have any omissions (of which I’m sure there are many ), please comment. I hope you like this list.

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According to the Baha’i religion, Baha’u’llah was born in 1817, a member of one of the great patrician families of Persia. The family could trace its lineage to the ruling dynasties of Persia’s imperial past, and was endowed with wealth and vast estates. Turning His back on the position at court which these advantages offered Him, Baha’u’llah became known for His generosity and kindliness which made Him deeply loved among His countrymen.

This privileged position did not long survive Baha’u’llah’s announcement of support for the message of the Báb. Engulfed in the waves of violence unleashed upon the Bábis after the Báb’s execution Baha’u’llah suffered not only the loss of all His worldly endowments but was subjected to imprisonment, torture and a series of banishments. The first was to Baghdad, where, in 1863, He announced Himself as the One promised by the Báb. From Baghdad, Baha’u’llah was sent to Constantinople, to Adrianople and finally to Acre, in the Holy Land, where He arrived as a prisoner, in 1868.

From Adrianople and later from Acre, Baha’u’llah addressed a series of letters to the rulers of His day that are among the most remarkable documents in religious history. They proclaimed the coming unification of humanity, and the emergence of a world civilization. The kings, emperors and presidents of the nineteenth century were called upon to reconcile their differences, curtail their armaments, and devote their energies to the establishment of universal peace.

Baha’u’llah passed away at Bahji, just north of Acre, and is buried there. His teachings had already begun to spread beyond the confines of the Middle East, and His Shrine is today the focal point of the world community which these teachings have brought into being.

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Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706, may, by his life alone, be the most profound statement of what an American strives to be. He attended grammar school at age eight, but was put to work at ten. He apprenticed as a printer to his brother James, who printed the New England Courant, at age twelve, and published his first article there, anonymously, in 1721. Young Benjamin was an avid reader, inquisitive and skeptical. Through his satirical articles, he poked fun at the people of Boston and soon wore out his welcome, both with his brother and with the city. He ran away to New York and then on to Philadelphia at the age of 16, looking for work as a printer. He managed a commission to Europe for the purpose of buying supplies to establish a new printing house in Philadelphia, but found himself abandoned when he stepped off ship. Through hard work and frugality he bought his fare back to Philadelphia in 1732, and set up shop as a printer. He was appointed clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1736, and as Postmaster the following year. In 1741, he began publishing Poor Richard’s Almanac, a very popular and influential magazine. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1751, and served as an agent for Pennsylvania (and ultimately for three other colonies) to England, France and several other European powers.

He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775, where he played a crucial role in the rebellion against Gr. Britain, including service to Jefferson, in editing the Declaration of Independence. Franklin, who was by this time independently wealthy and retired from publishing, continued to serve an important role in government, both local and national. He was the United States first Postmaster General, Minister to the French Court, Treaty agent and signer to the peace with Gr. Britain, Celebrated Member of the Constitutional convention (See Work, above). Benjamin Franklin: Businessman, Writer, Publisher, Scientist, Diplomat, Legislator and Social activist was one of the earliest and strongest advocates for the abolition of Slavery, and for the protection of the rights of American aboriginal peoples. He died on the 17th of April, 1790. On that day he was still one of the most celebrated characters in America.

Socrates

Known as the founder of the Socratic method of questioning, Socrates was a famed social and judicial philosopher. Through his dialogues, his masterful arguments, and his logical method of countering his opponents verbally, he earned a reputation through every household, university and government office in Greece. Born to a sculptor and masonry worker in Athens, he followed his father’s chosen career path successfully for several years before devoting himself to the betterment of his own intellectual being. He had interest in the great philosophers of the day, including Plato and Xenophon. After their meeting, Plato continued writing using Socrates’ voice as the narrator of his works, which showed that logic and sound argument could disarm any opponent.

Socrates claimed to hear voices that told him about his own moral behavior, and would warn him if he were to not meet his own high standards of divine truth and justice. He also concluded that Greece’s wisest persons were not as wise as he, because Socrates claimed he saw his own ignorance. One who realizes he is ignorant will become the wisest of all.

Many Athenians in Greece thought that Socrates was polluting the minds of the city’s youth. They accused him of putting ideas into their heads, counter to the goals of the Athenian government. An argument, recorded in Apology, gives a prime example of Socrates’ argumentative process, where he shows that since the government has not thought about the city’s youth, they cannot be imprisoned for their corruption. This style of questioning begins with regular questioning and carries on until logic reaches a definite point and conclusion. His fame, life, philosophy and logic won him much praise, and is still considered the foundation of the philosophies that spread after him.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, at his family home in Atlanta, Georgia. King was an eloquent Baptist minister and leader of the civil-rights movement in America, from the Mid-1950s until his death, by assassination, in 1968. King promoted non-violent means to achieve civil-rights reform and was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.

King’s grandfather was a Baptist preacher. His father was pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. King earned his own Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951, and earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University, in 1955.

While at seminary, King became acquainted with Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent social protest. On a trip to India in 1959, King met with followers of Gandhi. During these discussions he became more convinced than ever that nonviolent resistance was the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.

As a pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, King lead a Black bus boycott. He and ninety others were arrested and indicted under the provisions of a law making it illegal to conspire to obstruct the operation of a business. King and several others were found guilty, but appealed their case. As the bus boycott dragged on, King was gaining a national reputation. The ultimate success of the Montgomery bus boycott made King a national hero.

Dr. King’s 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail inspired a growing national civil rights movement. In Birmingham, the goal was to completely end the system of segregation in every aspect of public life (stores, no separate bathrooms and drinking fountains, etc.) and in job discrimination. Also in 1963, King led a massive march on Washington DC, where he delivered his now famous, “I Have A Dream” speech. King’s tactics of active nonviolence (sit-ins, protest marches) had put civil-rights squarely on the national agenda.

On April 4, 1968, King was shot by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was only 39 at the time of his death. Dr. King was turning his attention to a nationwide campaign to help the poor at the time of his assassination.

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According to his homepage, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July, 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, and northeastern Tibet. At the age of two the child, who was named Lhamo Dhondup at that time, was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have postponed their own nirvana and chosen to take rebirth in order to serve humanity.

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Nelson Mandela was born in a small South African village, to a local chief and his third wife. He was the first person in his family to receive a western education, and was inspired to study law after witnessing the democracy of African tribal governance at an early age. Mandela became a sought after lawyer in Johannesburg, defending black South Africans against the government’s increasingly unfair treatment, and a key figure of the African National Congress, a political party that sought to unite all Africans and regain their rights and freedom. He participated in boycotts, organized protests, mobilized his people and, in turn, was labeled an enemy of the state: accused of treason, banned from political involvement, disbarred and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela’s incarceration brought international attention to the racial injustices of South Africa’s apartheid government, sparking the rally cry “Free Nelson Mandela” worldwide.

Mandela served 27 years in prison, before his release in 1990, at the age of 72. He was elected the first black President of South Africa, in 1994. Although he retired from political life in 1999, Mandela continues to lend his voice towards issues that affect his country and the world at large, such as the AIDS epidemic, poverty and human rights. He was also instrumental in securing South Africa as the host of the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Nelson Mandela is one of the world’s greatest, and most admired political leaders. He has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, for he is a shining example of the incredible strength of the human spirit to persevere, in the face of adversity, for the pursuit of freedom.

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Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, West India. He studied law in London, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today.

In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.

Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-4). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission, which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi, by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.

Even after his death, Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living: making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest— has been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.

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In about the sixth century B.C., Siddhartha Gautama was born into a royal family. When he was a young adult his experiences with the outside world drove him to seek out a greater understanding of life and spiritual fulfillment. Through seeking guidance and meditation, Siddhartha was said to have achieved Enlightenment. From that point, he was known as the Buddha, which means ‘Enlightened One’. For the rest of his life, the Buddha traveled great distances, teaching people about one path to salvation. After the Buddha’s death, his pupils continued to spread his teachings. Buddhism developed at a time when Hinduism, the most widespread religion in India, had become tightly controlled by priests and the upper classes. Buddhism offered hope and access to spiritual understanding and satisfaction to ordinary people. Throughout the world today, people still follow the teachings of the Buddha.

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Master Kong Qiu, as his name translates from Chinese, lived from 551 to 479 BC, and remains the most important single philosopher in Eastern history. He espoused significant principles of ethics and politics, in a time when the Greeks were espousing the same things. We think of democracy as a Greek invention, a Western idea, but Confucius wrote in his Analects that “the best government is one that rules through ‘rites’ and the people’s natural morality, rather than by using bribery and coercion. This may sound obvious to us today, but he wrote it in the early 500s to late 400s BC. It is the same principle of democracy that the Greeks argued for and developed: the people’s morality is in charge; therefore, rule by the people.

Confucius defended the idea of an Emperor, but also advocated limitations to the emperor’s power. The emperor must be honest, and his subjects must respect him, but he must also deserve that respect. If he makes a mistake, his subjects must offer suggestions to correct him, and he must consider them. Any ruler who acted contrary to these principles was a tyrant, and thus a thief more than a ruler.

Confucius also devised his own independent version of the Golden Rule, which had existed for at least a century in Greece before him. His phrasing was almost identical, but then furthered the idea: “What one does not wish for oneself, one ought not to do to anyone else; what one recognizes as desirable for oneself, one ought to be willing to grant to others.” The first statement is in the negative, and constitutes a passive desire not to harm others. The second statement is much more important, constituting an active desire to help others. The only other philosopher of antiquity to advocate the Golden Rule in the positive form is Jesus Christ.

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I have ranked Jesus Christ as number one because His impact is far more reaching than any of the other members of this list – with more adherents in the world, by a mile, than any other religious group. Jesus of Nazareth is the founding figure of Christianity, and Christianity is the religion that shaped Europe and much of the world, as a consequence. As the largest religion in the world, there is no doubt that Christianity is still making an impact to this day. The principal sources of information regarding Jesus’ life and teachings are the four canonical gospels. Most critical scholars in the fields of history and biblical studies believe that ancient texts on Jesus’ life are, at least partially, accurate, agreeing that Jesus was a Galilean Jew who was regarded as a teacher and healer. They also generally accept that He was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on orders of the Roman Prefect of Judaea Pontius Pilate, on the charge of sedition against the Roman Empire. Interestingly, the most peaceful man on this list also said: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.” [St Matthew 10:34]

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10 Inventions and Theories Made by Women but Credited to Men https://listorati.com/10-inventions-and-theories-made-by-women-but-credited-to-men/ https://listorati.com/10-inventions-and-theories-made-by-women-but-credited-to-men/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:30:50 +0000 https://listorati.com/10-inventions-and-theories-made-by-women-but-credited-to-men/

Throughout history, as far back as the time when the social construct of society created a division between genders, sexism has existed. It has deprived women of being acknowledged and recognized in the field of science and technology, considering them intellectually inferior to men. As a result, women have been making revolutionary advancements and inventions that changed the course of history from before it was normalized for them to be in the workforce. However, numerous times have men been unfairly recognized for the contributions of women to this day.

Related: 10 Incredible Things Accomplished By Women Disguised As Men

10 Esther Lederberg: Microbial Genetics

Esther Lederberg, an ambitious and determined woman, stood headstrong in front of all the obstacles a woman pursuing a profession in science and advancing technology would face during the mid-20th century. This was a time when it was considered highly unusual for women to be involved in affairs outside of the four walls of their homes. Despite her professor, friends, and family’s consistent persuasion to make her rethink her decision to enter the profession of biochemistry, she remained obstinate. Being able to access Stanford University’s laboratories under her husband’s supervision made her research relatively easier.

She was the first individual who was able to segregate the bacteria lambda phage, and she and her husband were able to discover replica plating. But her husband Joshua Lederberg alone was awarded the Nobel Prize for their conjoined efforts. She was not credited at all.[1]

9 Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Pulsars

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a 24-year-old Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Cambridge, was also one of its leading astrophysics researchers. After working non-stop for two years, her greatest breakthrough came in 1967. She was placed in charge of the 81.5-megahertz radio frequency telescope at the facility, and she caught some strange markings from the radio frequencies on her charts. These were unlike anything she had ever seen before, with a second reading after a small interval. She became extremely curious about these findings and started researching their nature. Upon further study, she discovered these readings were that of a “pulsar,” a compact star that rotates and emits radioactive waves through its two poles.

Despite her tireless effort and dedication toward its research, the Nobel Prize was presented to her contemporaries Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle in 1974.[2]

8 The ENIAC Programmers: First Electronic Computer

At the start of World War II, the engineering division of the U.S. Army fell short of male recruits, so as a final resort, the government started recruiting women. They trained the six women on the basics of the ENIAC, a large-scale computer-stylized machine that was supposed to help with coordination in the war. Kathleen McNulty, Frances Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, Elizabeth Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff were put in charge of the operatives of the ENIAC.

They were handed the responsibility of fixing the glitches and sluggishness of the machine. They worked intensively to make the computer work smoothly, programming it to enhance its calculative speed and wiring the machine to perform specific computations. But through media coverage, the ENIAC was made to look as if it was a self-running technological invention made by male engineers Presper, Eckert, and Mauchly—completely disregarding the effort of the six women.[3]

7 Nettie Stevens: Sex Chromosomes

Nettie Stevens was one of the leading biologists of the 20th century. She had started her involvement in science at the relatively late age of 35 from Stanford. Throughout history, various theories have been presented about how the gender of an embryo was determined. While examining a male and female mealworm, she noticed a size difference in the 20th chromosome. She hypothesized that this difference determined the sex of the embryo, which later on proved to be true.

Regardless of her being the brains behind this discovery, credit was given to E.B. Wilson, her mentor and colleague, because he was working on the same question—though his results were announced right after hers.[4]

6 Mary Anderson: Windshield Wipers

In 1902, while visiting New York during the winter months, Mary Anderson observed car drivers having to frequently get out of their cars to wipe off the snow from their windshields. Obviously, this proved to be an extremely tedious task, so she thought up a device that could wipe off the snow for them. After several failed attempts, she finally invented a functioning blade-like wiper that could be installed at the front of the car, on the hood. It could be manually operated by the person in the front seats. Later, she had the device patented, but no manufacturing firm was willing to start the sales of this product as they did not consider it convenient enough to be sold.

After some years, her patent expired, and the inventor Robert Kearns manufactured her wiper blades, earning the acknowledgment for her invention.[5]

5 Elizabeth Magie: Monopoly

In 1903, Elizabeth Magie came up with the idea of a complex board game that would go by the name “The Landlords Game.” It was supposed to give everyone a fair idea of Henry George’s single tax theory (which was relatively famous around that time). Magie patented the game in 1904, but no firm was willing to manufacture it for her, labeling it “complex and absurd.”

Around three decades later, in 1932, a man named Charles Darrow played the board game with a friend. He enjoyed the game so much that he took the idea to a firm he knew as Parker Brothers. The company eagerly published and manufactured the game under Darrow’s name with the title of “Monopoly.” To this day, Monopoly is recognized under his name, whereas it was never his to begin with.[6]

4 Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu: Law of Parity

During World War II, a Chinese-American, Dr. Chein-Shiung Wu, joined the Manhattan Project. This was the U.S. Army’s top-secret project under which they were trying to develop an atomic bomb. Even after the war had ended, she continued working at Columbia alongside her two male colleagues, Dr. Tsung-Dao Lee and Dr. Chen Ning Yang. She discovered a law of symmetry in physics called the principle of conservation of parity. She was not rewarded for her involvement, and the Nobel Prize in Physics was presented to her co-workers—Dr. Lee and Dr. Yang.[7]

3 Lise Meitner: Nuclear Fission

Lise Meitner’s extensive involvement in the field of nuclear physics led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Furthermore, this discovery helped lay the groundwork for creating the atomic bomb during the mid-20th century. She professionally collaborated with chemist Otto Hanh for over 30 years. Hanh performed the experiment, but Lise proved the theory behind it.

However, due to two factors, she was not recognized. First, she was a Jew (when Hitler was in power in Germany), and second, she was a woman when the presence of women was not common in that field. When Otto published their findings, he made sure he removed her name from the document. Hence he was solely credited for the findings she spent her life working on.[8]

2 Alice Augusta Ball: The Ball Method (The Cure for Leprosy)

Alice Augusta Ball was the first woman to graduate from the University of Hawaii with a master’s degree and the first African-American researcher and instructor in the university’s chemistry department during her time. At that time, leprosy was wildly spreading throughout Hawaii, and the chaulmoogra tree oil was being used to treat leprosy patients. One drawback of the oil was that it was not easily injectable; therefore, its effect was limited.

Ball was called by the board and asked to make an injectable form of the oil. Within one year, she made the oil’s injectable form, which was a major quantum leap in medical history. Her medicine was used for the next two decades. Ball, however, passed away at the young age of 24 due to a laboratory accident. So when her colleague Arthur Dean published the reports, he removed her name, hence getting the recognition.[9]

1 Ada Harris: Hair Straightener

Ada Harris was a regular African-American school teacher in the late 1880s, and she invented the tong hair straightener that could easily be heated on a stove. While filling out her patent form, she wrote, “My invention relates to a hair straightener whose purpose is to straighten curly hair and is especially of service to; colored people in straightening their hair.” But she was never recognized for this novel invention of hers because everyone credited this invention to Marcel Grateau as he was the one who had invented the curling iron a decade before Ada. But in this modern age, we are aware that the curling and straightening iron are two completely different inventions fulfilling different needs. [10]

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Top 10 Men Who Did Amazing Things (and Turned Out To Be Women) https://listorati.com/top-10-men-who-did-amazing-things-and-turned-out-to-be-women/ https://listorati.com/top-10-men-who-did-amazing-things-and-turned-out-to-be-women/#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 07:03:15 +0000 https://listorati.com/top-10-men-who-did-amazing-things-and-turned-out-to-be-women/

History is full of amazing stories, adventures, and thousands of years of male dominance. As a result, women wishing to breach their normal positions in families and society have had to go to extraordinary lengths to make their mark.

Over the centuries, numerous women chose to pass themselves off as a man. This was often done to enter typically male-only fields, or because was required to serve in the military.

Whatever their individual reasons, these amazing women all did great things, and they did it all while the men around them thought they were just one of the guys.

10 Deborah Sampson

Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, in 1760. She was born to a prominent family but ended up in indentured service by the age of 10. Once this was completed, the self-educated descendent of prominent Pilgrims worked as a teacher and weaver.

In 1782, Sampson enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment as a man named Robert Shurtleff. She was assigned to a Light Infantry company as a scout. Sampson led 30 infantrymen into combat and captured 15 men. At Yorktown, she dug trenches and fought with her unit.

Sampson hid her gender for almost two years, even going so far as to dig a pistol ball from her thigh to avoid the medical tent. Ultimately, her truth was discovered when an infection rendered her unconscious. She was given an honorable discharge and returned to Massachusetts, where she married and had three children.

Massachusetts gave Sampson a military pension, making her the only woman to receive a pension for service during the Revolutionary War. After her death, her husband petitioned the state for a continuation of her pension as her spouse. Massachusetts ultimately agreed, saying the conflict “furnished no other similar example of female heroism, fidelity, and courage.”

9 Christian “Kit” Cavanaugh

Christian Davies was born in Ireland in 1667, and she became the proprietor of a pub, which she inherited from her aunt. She married a man named Wichard Welsh, and the couple had two children, but when she was pregnant with their third child, Richard disappeared.

This happened in 1691, and it turned out that her husband was impressed into the British Army, which she learned when she received a letter explaining his situation. Intent on finding her husband, Christian gave her children to her mother, cut her hair, and dressed as a man. In 1693, she joined the British Army under the name Christopher Welch.

Christian fought at the Battle of Landen, where she was wounded and captured. She was returned via a prisoner exchange, and her disguise remained intact. She killed another soldier in a duel (over a woman), was discharged, and then reenlisted in the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons.

She fought in many campaigns and was finally discovered to be a woman when she was wounded. Once the news broke, her commander brought her husband back, reuniting the couple after a 13-year separation. She was given a pension and remained with her unit, which knew her as “Mother Ross.” When she passed in 1739, she was given full military honors.

8 Hannah Snell

Hanna Snell grew up in Worcester, England, in the 18th century. When she was old enough, she married a man and moved to London, where she gave birth to a daughter. Her husband left her while she was pregnant, and after the child died, Snell put on her brother-in-law’s clothes and assumed his name, James Gray.

She found that her husband was executed for murder, so she joined the 6th Regiment of Foot in the Duke of Cumberland’s army. She didn’t stay for long and ended up deserting to Portsmouth, where she joined the Royal Marines. In June of 1749, Snell was wounded 11 times, with one round hitting her groin. She asked a local woman to remove the bullet to avoid detection.

The following year, she revealed her sex to her fellow shipmates and petitioned the Duke for a military pension. This was granted despite her gender, and it was even increased years later. Snell sold her story to a London publisher, who printed her tale in The Female Soldier.

She took her story to the stage and gained some fame for her exploits. Eventually, she retired to East London, where she established a pub called The Widow in Masquerade. She remarried twice and had two children before passing at the age of 69 in 1792.

7 Jeanne Louise Antonini


Jeanne Louise Antonini was orphaned and alone by the age of ten. She disguised herself as a boy and joined the crew of the frigate La Cornélie. While serving aboard the ship, she maintained her guise as a boy. After a decade, she was wounded during the Napoleonic Wars.

Antonini was taken prisoner and was interned for 18 months until a treaty was signed between France and Britain. Once released, she returned to France, where she joined the French Army. Continuing to disguise herself as a male, she served in the French Army for 15 years, achieving the rank of Sergeant.

She was wounded numerous times throughout her service. Eventually, a severe injury to her head while serving in the French occupation of Portugal ended her military career. Throughout her 25+ years in the Navy and Army, her sex was never revealed.

After she left the Army, Antonini worked at a brick factory. When she was 70-years-old, she was honored with a Saint Helena Medal, the first French campaign medal established by Napoleon I. There is a street named in her honor in the French city of Nantes.

6 Charlotte D. Parkhurst

Charlotte D. Parkhurst was born in Vermont in 1812 to a small family, which got even smaller when both parents and her brother passed away. She was placed in an orphanage soon after birth, where she remained until she was 12. At that time, she ran away and started going by the name Charley.

Charley wound up in Rhode Island under the care of Ebenezer Balch, who raised him like a son. It was under Balch’s tutelage that Charley learned the art of stagecoach driving. By the time Parkhurst was 30, he made his way to California to find work during the Gold Rush, and shortly after arriving, Charlie lost an eye to a horse’s kick to the head.

Despite the injury (and the “One-Eyed Charley” nickname), Charley became one of the top drivers of his day. Stagecoach driving was a hazardous occupation, thanks to the lack of roads, the prevalence of bandits, and the harsh weather.

Hauling gold through “the great stage route” from San Hose to San Juan and Santa Cruz was harsh, but Charley became famous for his daring exploits and professionalism. He became known as the boss of the road.” He retired after a long career and passed away at the age of 67 in 1879. It was in death that Charley’s sex was finally discovered, having lived nearly his entire life as a man.

5 Marina The Monk

Marina was born to a wealthy Christian family in the 5th century. After her mother died, she was raised as a devout Christian by her father, who planned to marry her off when she was of age. When she learned of this, she offered an alternative: she would live with him as a monk.

Marina shaved her head, donned men’s clothes, and became a monk. Eugenius supported his daughter, so he gave away their possessions and joined a monastery in the Kadisha Valley. Marina took the name Marinos, and the other monks accepted their new brother.

While doing some work for the abbot, she was accused of impregnating an innkeeper’s daughter and was thrown out of the monastery, where she remained outside as a beggar. Once the child was born, she cared for it, and after several years, she was allowed back inside.

When she was 40-years-old, she became sick and died. As her body was cleaned for burial, it was discovered that she was a woman. Seeing this, the abbot broke down, realizing he punished Marina unjustly. Marina is venerated as a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Catholic Church, and the Coptic Orthodox Church.

4 Anna Maria Lane

Anna Maria Lane was married to a man named John Lane around the time the American Colonies declared their independence from England in 1776. She accompanied her husband to serve in the Continental Army, though she didn’t do so as a camp follower.

Instead, Anna Maria dressed as a man and enlisted alongside her husband. They began their service under the command of General Israel Putnam. They fought in various campaigns in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Georgia. By 1777, they were fighting under the command of General George Washington at the Battle of Germantown.

Anna Maria was severely wounded during the battle, but she refused treatment, fearing her gender would be discovered. This decision resulted in her being disabled for life. Despite her injuries, she continued to fight alongside her husband. They both served until 1781, and by 1783, they settled in Virginia.

She was awarded a military pension for her service despite her sex. Governor William H. Cabell mentioned her specifically, saying she was “very infirm, having been disabled by a severe wound which she received while fighting as a common soldier, in one of our Revolutionary battles, from which she never has recovered, and perhaps never will recover.”

3 Dorothy Lawrence

Dorothy Lawrence always wanted to become a journalist, so she worked hard to achieve that goal. She had articles published in various newspapers in the early 20th century. After the Great War broke out, she shifted her interests to become a war correspondent.

Unable to enter the war and report on it officially, she opted to become a freelance war correspondent. This attempt failed, as she was arrested by French police two miles (3.2 km) from the front. Undeterred, she convinced British soldiers to smuggle her a uniform, which they did, piece by piece.

Her so-called “Khaki accomplices” comprised of ten men, and with her uniform, she transformed herself into a male soldier. She managed to get to the front lines, where she found work as a sapper with the 179 Tunneling Company of the 51st Division in the Royal Engineers.

She became concerned that her sex would be found out if she were injured, endangering the men who helped her, so she came clean. She was immediately arrested and interrogated as a possible spy but was ultimately freed.

She later wrote Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier but failed to find an audience. Her experiences took a toll, and she was institutionalized in an asylum in London, where she remained until she died in 1964.

2 Billy Tipton

Billy Tipton is a name many people know because he was a famous jazz musician and bandleader. Tipton’s career flourished in the 1930s and continued well into the 1950s. He remained active, working as a talent broker and occasional performer until the ’70s, when he had to stop due to arthritis.

When Billy Tipton passed away in 1989 at the age of 74, his friends and family were shocked to learn that he was a woman. Dorothy Lucille Tipton was born in Oklahoma City in 1914 before moving to Kansas City, Missouri, to be raised by her aunt at the age of four. She had an early interest in jazz and pursued a career in music.

Around age 19, Dorothy began binding her breasts and dressing as a man to fit in with other jazz musicians. As her career began to take off, she adopted the name Billy Lee Tipton and “decided to permanently take on the role of a male musician.” Billy worked and lived as a man, preferring he, him, and his pronouns.

When he died, Tipton’s adopted son William learned his father was born a woman. It came as a shock to everyone, including the women Billy had serious relationships with during his life.

1 Dr. James Berry

Doctor James Berry was born in 1789 and started an education to become a teacher, but lacking the necessary experience made this difficult. Berry attended the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. After finishing school, Berry moved to London to continue studying surgical techniques. By 1813, Dr. Berry was commissioned in the British Army.

Berry rose through the ranks to become an Inspector General in charge of numerous military hospitals. Dr. Berry’s achievements include performing the first successful cesarean section by a European doctor in Africa. Dr. Berry’s life was filled with accomplishments in medicine, and it was only in death that the truth was revealed.

When his body was laid out for burial, Berry surprised everyone, as the post-mortem exam proved he wasn’t a man. In fact, Dr. Berry was born Margaret Ann Bulkley, and she managed to live and work as a man throughout her entire adult life.

The truth of Margaret’s sex remained the subject of rumor and speculation long after her death. It was only confirmed years later via an analysis of James,’ and Margaret’s letters confirmed they were the same person. Margaret’s choice to live as a man was likely done so she could attend medical school and work as a physician.

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Stand up comedy would be nothing today without comedians making observations about the differences between men and women. And it’s likely people have been drawing various conclusions about the difference between men and women since men and women first existed. Nowadays we can rely on more than just casual observation and look at science and stats to see just how different we really are. 

10. Men Sweat More, and Sooner, Than Women

Let’s say you have a man and a woman working out together. They’re both in shape, both putting in the same amount of effort, doing the same amount of work, and both working up a sweat. Who do you think is going to sweat more?

As it happens, men really do sweat more than women and that’s backed up by research. In fact, men will start sweating sooner than women and will sweat about twice as much overall. Women have to put in a lot more work to start sweating. 

In one study, men lost twice as much moisture from their foreheads, back, check, forearms and thighs during the course of a workout. And while they may sound like a boon for women, it actually indicates that men’s bodies tend to work more efficiently at staying cool when they’re working. Part of this is thanks to testosterone levels, which are believed to aid in sweat production. 

9. Men are Twice as Likely to Gamble as Women

Anyone can find themselves caught up in the thrill of a game of chance or a game of skill, especially when money is on the line. It’s hard to deny the thrill of gambling and winning. But people do tend to fail far more often than they succeed. So who’s most likely to get sucked into this dynamic?

Men tend to be more inclined than women to gamble by a significant margin. Study results have shown that men are around twice as likely to gamble as women. And among members of both sexes who gamble, 20.1% of men would qualify as “problem gamblers” while only 7.8% of female gamblers qualify. 

Another study has shown that it doesn’t take a lot to convince a man to make a risky financial decision, either. In fact, if a fortune teller gives a man a good fortune, that man is more likely to make a risky gamble as a result. 

8. Men Tend to Say I Love You Earlier Than Women

Have you ever seen a movie or TV, usually a comedy, in which a male character stumbles over trying to tell a woman he loves her? And he legitimately can’t form the word? This stems from some sort of belief that men have trouble admitting their feelings but research shows the exact opposite is true. In fact, men tend to profess their love as much as six weeks earlier than women, on average. 

Now this doesn’t necessarily mean men are more sensitive and loving than we at first thought. Other research has shown that men seem to prefer hearing from a woman that the woman loves them before they consummate their relationship sexually than after. It’s possible, therefore, that men jump the gun on saying I love you in the hopes that the woman will return the sentiment and sex can therefore occur sooner in a way that the man finds acceptable. 

7. Men Are 88.7% More Likely to Win a Darwin Award 

The Darwin Awards are one of the internet’s historical relics, dating back to 1993. The idea of the awards is to celebrate, after a fashion, people who have improved the human genome by “accidentally removing themselves from it.” In other words, people who died by what has been deemed a stupid accident. It’s a morbidly funny concept, and it’s been going strong for a very long time now. 

Some may be surprised to learn and others may be less surprised to learn that Darwin Award winners are overwhelmingly men. In fact, men make up 88.7% of all Darwin Award winners. This extends well beyond silly internet awards as well as explained by something called the “Male Idiot Theory.” Please don’t be offended, that’s the name someone else gave it.

Based on data related to mortality rates and info from hospital emergency rooms, men are just far more likely to be injured accidentally or playing sports. They also have worse automobile accidents and all of this together has built some observable evidence that men take more stupid risks than women regardless of culture and socioeconomic factors. 

Researchers actually poured over 20 years worth of Darwin Awards data to prove, legitimately, that men are more prone to doing stupid things than women. Selection And reporting bias likely affect the numbers to some degree, but that massive 88.7% difference is more than mildly significant. 

6. Women are Far More Likely to Live a Vegan Lifestyle

Women are more likely to be vegan and that’s a fact. At least one study found that only 24% of vegans are men. Another study bumped the number up to 37%, which is still clearly very low. There’s a good chance this comes, in part, from the way we have traditionally looked at meat. Meat is manly. It doesn’t need to make sense, it’s just the way it has always been presented to us. Men grill meat and eat steaks and burgers and so on. Women are often portrayed as being daintier and eating salads and so on. Maybe it’s all stereotyping and based on no real facts at all, but numbers don’t lie.

Psychologists have observed that men are often fearful of appearing to do anything that isn’t masculine. And they will even amp up their perceived manliness in the aftermath of performing a task considered feminine. In the face of a complete lifestyle overhaul, such as going vegan, this is a stumbling block for manly men. This includes for health reasons or moral reasons.

5. Men and Women Often Lie for Different Reasons

Here’s a tough one for you. Who do you think is more honest and trustworthy overall, men or women? The answer is… not that easy, either. Everyone can be deceitful, but the reasons why men and women are deceitful may be surprising. 

Research has shown that men tend to lie more often for their own benefit while women are more likely to lie for someone else’s. A man will be more likely to tell a lie that makes himself look better. He may lie about his height to seem taller, how strong he is to seem tough, how much money he makes to seem richer. In contrast, women lie about those same types of things but for the opposite reasons. They’ll lie about their age to seem younger, their weight to seem slimmer, and their sexual partners to seem less experienced. So men lie to boost and women lie to minimize.

Some studies show women are more likely to lie, as much as twice as likely, in fact, as men. But the lies they tell are to be nice. That means to spare someone’s feelings or make them feel better. They will also lie to help boost someone, such as if they have to advocate for someone else in some way, while men tend to not go out on a limb for another person in that way. 

4. Men are Far More Likely to Get Skin Cancer Than Women

There’s a common stereotype that men are a little more stubborn about their own health than women. They will do less to care for themselves and the evidence seems to back this up, especially in terms of skin cancer rates. By the time they reach age 80, men are three times as likely to get skin cancer as women are. White men over 55 are the most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in America compared to any other group. 

A major part of this discrepancy is that women, by and large, do far more for their own skin care than men. This includes makeup and moisturizers that have an SPF. Only 14% of men wear sunscreen when they go out. A large number of men are unaware of the dangers of the sun as well. Only 56% of men surveyed knew that there is no such thing as a healthy tan compared to 76% of women. 

Part of the problem here is that sunscreen is marketed very specifically to women. The imagery and language use is very explicitly directed at women and this harkens back to what we know about veganism already. Men don’t want to be perceived as being less than manly and will avoid things considered feminine, even if it literally kills them. 

3. Men are Much More Likely to Be Struck by Lightning Than Women

There’s a good chance you never worry about being hit by lightning because why would you? The CDC says you have less than a one in a million chance of being hit in any given year. That said, your odds do increase if you’re a man. You’re four times as likely to be struck, in fact, compared to women.

Between 2006 and 2016, there were 352 people who were struck and killed by lightning. Of those, 79% of the victims were men. The reason men are the more common victims could be accounted for when you factor in what most of the victims are doing. About 90% of the male victims were fishing or playing sports, meaning they were outside and likely holding something that essentially worked as a lightning rod. The lesson here is that, if a storm rolls in, drop the rod or the golf clubs for your own safety. 

2. Men Fart Much More Often Than Women

No doubt the one question that has plagued you for years is who farts more, men or women? Well, science has your answers so you can rest easy. You may have long speculated that men were the gassier sex, and you were right. Men are actually working them out almost twice as often as women. This has been studied by real scientists

When 60 men and 60 women were tasked with tracking their gas, men had an average of 12.7 farts per day. The women only clocked in with an average of 7.1. One man pulled off a whopping 53 in a day. The leading woman tapped out at 32.

Obviously diet will have the greatest effect on this and it’s not consistent from one day to another, but the general conclusion still stands. Men are just a little windier than women. 

1. Far More Men Than Women Don’t Wash Their Hands After Using a Bathroom

Of all the differences between men and women, few are likely to make you feel as uncomfortable as this one. We’re looking at bathroom habits and what we’re seeing isn’t good. A full 15% of men do not wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Of the remaining 85% who do wash their hands, only 50% use soap. 

On the flip side, 7% of women are disinclined to clean up after using the restroom, and 78% will use soap out of those who do. More off putting is that only 5% of all participants washed their hands long enough to kill the kinds of germs that can make you sick. This is based on results from 3,749 participants. 

Now maybe that was just one study that had curious results. What does the CDC say? According to them, 69% of men won’t wash their hands after using a public bathroom, compared to 35% of women.

Both of these studies are getting pretty old at this point, the first from 2013 and the second from 2009. Perhaps after Covid people’s habits have changed but for now, you may want to assume any hands you shake aren’t as clean as they could be.

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