Being Mr. Kenny

Louis Armstrong, the famous jazz singer, owed his beautiful singing voice to the humble sore throat. Armstrong, who was a very skilled microbiologist, kept cultures of bacteria and viruses that he would breathe in each morning with his morning coffee.

In addition to his trademark husky voice, the microbes he inhaled also gave rise to an enormously strong immune system. In fact it was said that he could withstand any infectious or contagious disease thrown at him.

And all this was, of course, all completely true.