SERIOUSLY STRANGE | Hosted by Rob Gavagan - 5 People with Incredibly Powerful Minds

5 People with Incredibly Powerful Minds

12/30/17 • 14 min

SERIOUSLY STRANGE | Hosted by Rob Gavagan

5 People with Incredibly Powerful Minds...

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) - an Italian Renaissance polymath who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
Stephen Wiltshire (b. 1974) - a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once.
Kim Peake (1951-2009) - an American megasavant, who had an exceptional memory, but also experienced social difficulties. He was the inspiration for the character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie Rain Man.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) - a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
John von Neumann (1903-1957) - a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer, and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time.

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5 People with Incredibly Powerful Minds...

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) - an Italian Renaissance polymath who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
Stephen Wiltshire (b. 1974) - a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once.
Kim Peake (1951-2009) - an American megasavant, who had an exceptional memory, but also experienced social difficulties. He was the inspiration for the character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie Rain Man.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) - a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
John von Neumann (1903-1957) - a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer, and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time.

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5 UNBELIEVABLE ACTS OF KARMA

What goes around comes around...

The Elephant on The Field (John Sedgwick) - was a military officer and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an ironic remark among his last words, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" before being killed by a sharpshooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 9, 1864.
Family Tree of Irony (Csanád Szegedi) - was a member of the Hungarian radical nationalist Jobbik political party between 2003 and 2012, which at the time had been accused of antisemitism. In 2012, Szegedi gained international attention after acknowledging that he had Jewish roots.
Don't Puck With Me (Steve Sullivan) - a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played over 1000 games in the NHL.
Don't Stop Me Now (Tyler Myers) - an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL.
The Table of Revenge (Melvin Ignatow) - was acquitted of the 19888 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Sue Schaefer, but later admitted to killing Schaefer. Under the legal principle of double jeopardy, however, Ignatow could not be tried a second time for the murder. He was instead convicted and jailed for several instances of perjury in his grand jury testimony for the case.

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3 BIZARRE CRIME SCENES

3 places where people died that left people shocked, confused, and without words...

A Troubling Death - Mary Stults Sherman (1913–1964) was an American orthopedic surgeon and cancer researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago and the Oschsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. Her 1964 murder remains unsolved.
Black Dahlia's Demise - Elizabeth Short (1924–1947), known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. Her case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation of her corpse, which was bisected at the waist.
The Reaper's Beauty - Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947) was an American bookkeeper who died by suicide by jumping from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photography student Robert Wiles subsequently gained iconic status, being referred to as "the most beautiful suicide"

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