Did you know …
That the fathers of aviation, the Wright brothers, hated each other? It’s true! Engineering geniuses, they were nonetheless catty and quick to anger. Orville reportedly referred to Wilbur as “Prince Egghead of Virgintown,” while Wilbur was said to call Orville “a hair-covered suskwatch [sic], with two woolly mice mouth-sexing upon his upper lip.”
Though most depictions of their famous day at Kitty Hawk fail to show it, the brothers fought across the wings of their aircraft for the duration of its inaugural flight. There was no clear winner; Orville, afterwards, ordered “six pounds of crystal ice for the de-inflammation of [his] scrotal purse,” and Wilbur was seen applying a poultice of curdled milk, cobwebs and “the fatte of sheep’s wool” to his bare chest for the next several days. “I focussed my strong kicks on Orville’s manly fork to great effect,” he would write, “but mine brother possesses finger-claws of great sharpness and strength, and he has eyes for nothing but the nipples.”
Great minds do not always reside in cool heads, eh?
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