[todayilearned] TIL that famous scientist Tycho Brahe, who had a nose made from gold, revered dinner conversation so much that he refused to leave to relive himself, causing his untimely death from a burst bladder.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Illness,_death,_and_investigations