One day Columbus was sitting in a tavern, drinking beer, and suddenly heard a conversation at the next table…

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Christopher Columbus, returning from first voyage to his native city, looked at a certain restaurant. And sat down at the table, he accidentally overheard some men discussing his person and his alleged hard way, laughing at it. But most of all talking to a young salesman, saying that he, too, could go West, and he similarly could find India, and he himself also could appoint an Admiral.

Christopher calmly listened to this nonsense, and then went to the dealer and argued with him. The essence of the dispute was whether any of them are set on the table a boiled egg vertically. Dealer a few minutes trying to find the right spot and catch the moment of equilibrium, but he failed. And then Columbus he grabbed the egg and gently hit it end-on the surface of the table, hurting shell. Of course, the egg could now stand vertically.

— Come on! — cried the fishmonger, I could so!

"Of course," said Christopher, but only after me.

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