26Isaac Newton
When Isaac Newton was 20, he compiled a list of his sins. They included: "threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them", "peevishness with my mother". and "wishing death and hoping it to some".
27. Thomas Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at The Henry Ford museum near Detroit.
28. Niels Bohr hid the Nobel Prize medals of the Jewish Max von Laue and James Franck from the Nazis, by dissolving the gold medals in acid, and then reversing the chemical process to retrieve the gold after the war.
29. Gregor Mendel actually began his genetic experiments with mice but was told to change his experiments by a local bishop, who thought it was inappropriate that Mendel watched mice have sex.
30. Lord Kelvin, of temperature fame, developed a compass system for metal ships. It’s commonly known as Lord Kelvin’s Balls.
