If you have n’t eaten lunch by now , you might want to do that right now , because you ’re for certain not go to need much to eat or drink after say these thorougly unappetizing and warning tales fromForbidden Knowledge . Hey , do n’t say we did n’t warn you :
Henry I : Henry I was n’t exactly given the stool . As the third son of William the Conqueror , Henry became king only after one of his older brother died and he ’d beaten the other out of the throne . He had quite a run of it , though , prevail for a good 35 year – that is , until he was toppled by one - too - many lampreys . If you ’re not familiar , a lamprey eel is a nasty - looking beast of a fish with a circular mouth that can reach three infantry in distance . And it ’s as mean as it looks . lamprey will attach themselves to other fish , rasp a golf hole in them , feed their shape , then detach , exit an often fatal injury . They are , however , reputed to be heavy eating ( fit for a business leader , in fact ) , especially if you like meaty fish with a high fatty tissue content , which Henry understandably did . Sometime before Christmas , England ’s king sit down to a heaping platter of the fatty Pisces the Fishes , ate a few too many , and breathed his last .
Two more food fiends after the jump .
Honore de Balzac:“Coffee is a great superpower in my life , " this Gallic writer said in his essay " The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee . " " I have observed its effects on an epic scale of measurement . " The matter is , he was n’t kidding . Balzac consumed as many as 50 cup of strong Turkish burnt umber a daytime , and we ’re talking about the days before indoor plumbing ! And he was no slouch at eating , either . At one meal old Balzac was reported to have eaten 100 oyster , 12 mutton cutlets , a duck , two partridge , and some fish , along with desserts , fruit , and wine-colored . But coffee was distinctly his passion , and he was close to the end . When Balzac could n’t get it strong enough , the addict was known to down powderise coffee dome for the jolt he needed . This grow two results : Balzac was an incredibly gumptious and prolific author , writing more than 100 novels . He also died of caffeine toxic condition at the age of 51 .
Zachary Taylor : Perhaps the most apolitical president in U.S. story , Zachary Taylor was an army veteran of four decades and a hero of the Mexican War , but he never vote or go for office before being elected president in 1848 . Even more astonishingly , the cheapskate resist to accept post with postage due , so he did n’t even make love he ’d been make for the office until weeks after the fact ! About 16 calendar month after taking the expletive of office , during which time he accomplished very little , old Zach attended a Fourth of July celebration at the Washington Monument on a sweltering day , and stood around in the heat for hour wearing dark heavy clothing . To cool off , he wolf down a trough of iced cherry and polished ‘em off with a pitched of Milk River . Not the best idea . Turns out the milk and/or icing was tainted , and Taylor give-up the ghost five days later of typhoid febrility or cholera .
