The Astronomer and the Moose
Tycho Brahe mapped the stars with unprecedented precision and wore a brass nose after losing the original in a duel over mathematics. He kept a clairvoyant dwarf under his dinner table and a tame moose that wandered his estate. In 1591, he lent the moose to a nobleman's party. It found the beer, drank heavily, attempted the stairs, and did not survive.
