Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Nikolai Gogol, the flamboyant front man of Gogol Bordello…Oh wait, that's just a band named after him? Our bad
You too can own your very own limited edition Nikolai Gogol stamp. If you live in Russia, that is. We know what we want for our birthday.
When we say that Gogol was a bad professor, we mean it. He once tried to get out of teaching his class by pretending he had a toothache. We can't say we haven't tried that one before either. (Source.)
Gogol's literary career got off on the wrong foot. He spent tons of money on vanity publishing and ended up burning the copies in embarrassment. You win some, you lose some. (Source.)
What would Gogol eat? We're assuming whatever it was, he should have added some probiotics to his diet since apparently, he had a bad case of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. (Source.)