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How did the astronomer Tycho Brahe die in October 1601?
Brahe died of uremia caused by acute urinary retention — eleven days of fever after a Prague banquet at which he reportedly thought it impolite to leave the table to relieve himself. The Kepler-poisoning theory was popular for decades. The 2010 exhumation ruled it out.
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The Astronomer Who Was Too Polite to Pee Tycho Brahe died because nobody told him he could leave the dinner table. Four centuries later they dug him up to find out for sure.