Legend has it that champagne was invented by a blind monk.
Dom Perignon, the story goes, had lost his vision but the loss improved his other senses. He was able to distinguish between the finest wines, and ultimately created the best wine of all. But the journal Survey of Ophthalmology reports on researchers who don't buy the story. Ophthalmologists from the department of ophthalmology at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, studied the story of Dom Perignon. While they agreed that he may have invented champagne and was blind, they're not convinced he was blind at the time of his discovery.