Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
With his buddy Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge planned on starting up a commune on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania with ten other families. Instead, Southey backed out of the deal—but only after Coleridge had married a friend of Southey's wife. Oops. (Source.)
Marriage was not kind to poor Samuel. Jealous of his attention to his friend William Wordsworth and his sister, Coleridge's wife Sara once spilled a pan of boiling hot milk on his foot to prevent Coleridge from going on a walk with them—aiee. (Source.)
Coleridge ran away from Cambridge to briefly join the army—but he had to quit because he kept falling off his horse. Cue the sad trombone. (Source.)