Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In 1909, Sigmund Freud published a study of a five-year-old boy who had a fear of horses called Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy. Freud believed that the boy's fear of horses was connected to his Oedipal complex and his fear of castration. (Source)
If we take inflation into account, Paul's bet of 300 pounds in the 1920s would be roughly equivalent to £11,000 pounds (around $17,000) today. His final total winnings of over 80,000 pounds would be equivalent to £3 million (around $4,640,000) today!