We all have those little idiosyncratic traits we can't help doing on a regular basis. You might consider them embarrassing or too weird to share in public, but it is your eccentricities that make you, you. Some of the greatest minds and thinkers in history also exhibited weird and off-kilter traits. Pythagoras Picture: Getty Images/ iStockphoto Pythagoras was one of the most influential minds in philosophy and mathematics. He is also one of the founding fathers of vegetarianism, but despite abiding by this strict lifestyle there was a meat-free food he despised. Pythagoras had no love for beans or legumes, to the point that he forbade any of his followers from eating or touching them. It's unclear whether this disdain for the food was down to health reasons or not. Ludwig van Beethoven Picture: Getty Images/ iStockphoto Beethoven was one of the world's greatest ever composers but his process for writing music was a little ...
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