A Malawian teenager taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
A professor of medical psychology in New York started hearing a voice…
A professor of medical psychology in New York started hearing a voice in her head in 1965. Her colleague encouraged her to write down what it said. The voice produced 3 volumes of “spiritual psychology,” some of which is written in iambic pentameter.
A German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion…
A German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.
‘Mein Keimpf’ by Adolf Hitler is the second-worst rated…
‘Mein Keimpf’ by Adolf Hitler is the second-worst rated book on GoodReads. Number one is ‘Dianetics’ by L. Ron Hubbard.