The deadly glass of water.

Arnold Bennett was a famous English novelist. He died because of an act of mindless dare devilry which

backfired!

He wanted to prove that the drinking water supplied in Paris was safe and pure enough to be drunk.

So he defiantly drank water from a carafe in the restaurant of a small Paris hotel. He caught typhoid

and tied in London two months later.

What a way to lose one’s precious life – betting on dirty water!