7 Geniuses Who Did Unbelievably Dumb Things

The dumbest mistakes made by the smartest people in history cost fortunes, noses and lives. This countdown of seven geniuses reveals how Isaac Newton jammed a bodkin behind his own eye and lost £20,000 in the South Sea Bubble. It also covers Pythagoras dying for refusing to cross a bean field, Tycho Brahe losing his nose in a duel and his elk to beer, Archimedes killed over circles in the sand and Nikola Tesla falling in love with a pigeon.