The Pet Elk That Drank Too Much at a Castle Dinner and Fell Down the Stairs
Tycho Brahe kept a tame moose at his Bohemian residence in the late 1590s. According to a letter Tycho wrote to a friend, the animal was lent to a neighbouring nobleman for a banquet, drank too much beer, and broke its neck falling down a flight of stairs while attempting to descend after the meal.
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