Top 10 CRAZY Facts about Howard Hughes!
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Top 10 CRAZY Facts about Howard Hughes! From his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to ordering 350 GALLONS of a specific ice cream…stay tuned to number 1 to find out the most bizarre facts about Howard Hughes! This top 10 brought to you by Zero2Hero!! Click here to see Water Resource Issues: What You Need To Know!Number 10: Germaphobe. Howard Hughes is infamous for his aversion to germs, but few people truly realize exactly what lengths the eccentric millionaire went to in order to
avoid contact with bacteria. Hughes had been cautious of infection ever since he was a child, but the more he grew, the more intense his phobia became. As an adult, he was, shall we say, peculiar. But by the time his film career fully kicked in, this brilliant mind was wearing tissue boxes for shoes, had his own personal fly swatting assistant so he didn't have to touch
flies, and kept a four foot personal bubble to protect himself from the contamination of others. Not surprisingly, this included his wives. You see, Mr. Hughes had quite a way with the ladies, and he was well known for seducing many of the actresses in Hollywood, but he barely spoke to his wives. Well, no more than a few minutes a day. They slept in separate rooms and even had their own fridges so he couldn't be contaminated by outside germs. That sounds like a solid relationship. Number 9: A Peculiar Individual. Every good director has their quirks. To make millions in movies requires passion,
drive, and the kind of attention to detail that the average person simply cannot maintain. Directors are known for being hot-headed, obsessive, and particular about every detail of the movies they make. When it came to this department, Howard Hughes took the cake and ate it too. This genius, but unconventional man, had a pretty severe of a case of obsessive compulsive disorder. Some of us might joke about being OCD when a brick in the sidewalk doesn't line up just right, or one of our pictures on the wall are a little tilted, but the reality of this disorder can be far more debilitating than people
realize. Ticks can start small and can flare quickly into full-blown mental necessities just to cope with the day. Howard Hughes was obsessed with order and his adult life was ruled by certain routines. In order to even function he watched the same movie on repeat every day, organized food by size before he ate it, if he could even eat it, and would get fixated on certain food items for months or even years at a time. Number 8: The Daredevil. An obsessive-compulsive germaphobe certainly doesn't sound like the kind of guy you'd expect to have danger seeking tendencies, but Mr. Hughes was,
if nothing else, an intense personality. He liked to go fast, and even owned his own aviation and aerospace companies that were worth billions. He had his first flying lesson when he was fourteen and that one fateful moment gave birth to a love for flying. Unfortunately, between that love, car crashes, and a few other incidents, Hughes ended up with some pretty serious injuries. The average person might have one, two, or even no concussions in their lifetime. Howard Hughes, on the other hand, walked away from fourteen serious head injuries. Fourteen. Considering the fact that even one
concussion could prove fatal, it's a miracle Hughes lived into his seventies. He spent his later years self-medicating for the resulting chronic pains with drugs and alcohol. It's thought that these injuries could've been the cause of, or at least added to, Howard's mental conditions, ultimately combining with his substance abuse and eventually his demise. Number 7: Quit School. Go ahead, go tell your parents you're dropping out of school. Tell them you’re doing it because you want to be an actor or a director. Or maybe you just want to pursue modeling? If you're like most of us, then that
conversation probably isn't going to go over too well. Before we talk about how this went for Howard Hughes, take a moment to like this video and subscribe to our channel so you can stay up to date on all of the videos from Zero2Hero! Technically speaking, Howard Hughes lost his parents at a relatively early age, so they probably never got to hear those words from him. And, if they’d lived, he might not have decided to pursue directing in the first place. Who knows? What we do know is that Howard quit school at age twenty, a year after he lost his second parent, in order to move to Hollywood and
pursue his dream of making movies. We'll never know what his parents would've had to say about that, but I'd like to think they would've recognized the crazy genius in him and offered their full support.
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