Michael Jackson's unfulfilled dream, the Titanic constructor's oversight and other little-known facts from the life of celebrities

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Geniuses are people to whom nothing is alien. Especially when it comes to their discoveries, inventions and achievements. After all, as it turned out, most of them often resort to cunning measures, not only plagiarizing, but sometimes violating safety precautions, guided by their point of view and speculation. Here are five interesting and egregious facts about some of the world's most famous personalities …

1. Michael Jackson wanted to play Spider-Man

Michael Jackson's instinct told him that he should play the role of Spider-Man. After discussing the situation with director Stan Lee, the king of the pop scene announced that he wanted to acquire the rights to the character. In the end, Lee explained that he needed to go to Marvel and share his plans with them. Stan also said that he and Michael were interested in buying the superhero company Marvel in the 1990s. When asked if Jackson would handle the role well, he said:

He also reported that the franchise may not have been as successful because Michael was not a great businessman. But Jackson's superhero love doesn't end there. The X-men producers said that he came to them with an offer to star in the role of Professor X. Who knows if it was a missed opportunity by the studios or a pipe dream for Michael, but the fact remains: the pop idol has always looked brilliant on stage, regardless of their roles …

2. Alexander Bell did not invent the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell was a great example of a good guy. He interacted with deaf people most of the time. His wife, mother, and even his beloved teacher were deaf. As a result, he came up with a brilliant, but very strange idea - to invent a telephone. Although, who knows … More and more evidence indicates that Bell stole the idea from an inventor named Antonio Meucci, who originally called his invention an electrophone. Besides, he was rather poor. He filed half of the patent in 1871, because Meucci could not afford a full one. When it came time to renew the contract, he was unable to raise even ten dollars.

The tragedy occurred when one hundred and twenty-five passengers were killed in a boiler explosion. Anthony survived but was seriously injured. Returning home, the man discovered that his wife had sold everything in his laboratory for six dollars to get medicine. One of those things was his phone. Meucci never gave up and built another model for the Western Union telegraph company. But they claimed they had lost his materials. Fast forward two years to the time Graham Bell filed a patent for the phone. As a result, Meucci sued him. But he was never able to find his sketches, claiming that he gave them to the Western Union laboratory, where, coincidentally, Bell worked. But an even bigger coincidence is that the sketches have disappeared. Unfortunately, Meucci died without being able to appeal against Bell, and the House of Representatives declared the appeal irrational.

3. Dracula was a real person

Every time we talk about Dracula, we are reminded of a film about a bloodthirsty vampire based on the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker. But, as it turned out, a real person named Vlad Tepes, who lived in Transylvania in the 15th century, was taken as the basis. And all would be fine, but this ruler was distinguished by his special cruelty, which horrified not only ordinary people. On account of his hundreds of thousands of victims, whom he impaled, watching them suffer in terrible agonies, while experiencing some kind of pleasure. Because of his bloodthirstiness, he received the nickname the devil (Dracul), which later transformed into the familiar Dracula for us.

4. The sinking of the Titanic

The Titanic was one of the largest ships ever thought to be unsinkable. And no one could even imagine that such a large-scale tragedy would one day happen to him. After leaving New England, the ship, on board which had more than two thousand passengers plus attendants and crew members, set off on a voyage across the vast Atlantic Ocean. Going on its own course, the ship unexpectedly stumbled upon an iceberg. The water, having passed through the compartments and collapsed the bow of the ship, simply broke it in half.

The nightmare continued due to panic in attempts to escape, because for some reason, for some unknown reason, there were not enough lifeboats. After all, such a huge vessel was capable of accommodating sixty-four lifeboats, but chief designer Alexander Carlisle had planned only forty-eight, thereby making the main deck more free. It just so happened that out of the publicly available quantity, only twenty boats were delivered on board. As a result, a little more than a thousand people were saved, which is about thirty-three percent of all passengers. Who knows, if then the chief designer had not made adjustments, perhaps the fate of those on board would have been different.

5. A man named Fulcanelli turned lead into gold

No one knows his name or personality. Historians call him Fulcanelli. It is assumed that this man was well educated and very intelligent. There is no evidence of his marriage or where he studied. Even his name could be fake to hide the identity of the real author. Several names were associated with it. In particular, he had a famous student named Eugene Canseliet who did something incredible. The guy turned lead into gold, claiming to have studied with his teacher, becoming his student at the age of sixteen.

In addition to Eugene, the mysterious Fulcanelli had another student. Gaston Sauvage said in all seriousness that he once witnessed how a boy turned lead into gold. And in 1926, the mysterious alchemist disappeared, literally disappearing into thin air. Many efforts have been made to find out who this mysterious person really is. Theories arose that it was actually Canseliet, as he published the works of the late Fulcanelli. But there are flaws in the theory, and the secret still remains unsolved. This is one of the strangest cases in history, and the real Fulcanelli may not have disappeared and is still alive. Who knows, maybe it was a huge prank, because the great alchemist did not want to tell anyone how to make gold by hand. And this strange mystery may never be solved, and the person who makes gold may forever remain unknown.

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