


Kellogg, who invented Corn Flakes, ran a medical facility called the Battle Creek Sanitarium in the late 1800's. I'm also an opponent of cursive.Ĥ. John Harvey Kellogg and W.K. Take that opponents of cursive! Just kidding. They were the first ones with beautiful typography. Seventy-three of the school's 80 students resigned.ģ. Steve Jobs has claimed that taking calligraphy courses in college is one of the reasons that the earliest Macintosh computers were successful. He once told students that anyone caught smoking would be expelled. Anyway, that's the first of many interesting facts about inventors I'm going to share with you today, brought to you by our friends at Geico.Ģ. Inventor of vaccines and pasteurization, Louis Pasteur was the head of the science program at a French school during the mid 1800's.

See the video description below for proof. The internet may tell you this is a myth, but it's not. Did you know that Alfred Nobel was inspired to start the Nobel Prize when he read his own obituary in a newspaper that ran it by mistake? Nobel didn't like the headline, "The Merchant of Death is Dead," a reference to the fact that he invented dynamite, so he found a new legacy for himself. This transcript comes courtesy of Nerdfighteria Wiki. Don't miss an episode- subscribe here! (Images and footage provided by our friends at Shutterstock.
