Fun Fact Friday - False Facial Features

Holy balls, Batman, that was a shit-ton of alliteration! Almost too much. But today's fun fact is so fucking fun that I couldn't give a flying fuck if Robin and Batman think if used too much alliteration.

Fun fact: Tycho Brahe, the perhaps not super well-known but most interesting Danish astronomer, lost his nose in a duel and wore a false metallic one in its stead.

Handsome.

I already knew about Tycho Brahe's proclivity for hiring dwarves. If you did not, you should perhaps look into this science man and all his space observations because I am only going to tell you about his duel with his cousin over a mathematical equation.

Actually, that is about all you need to know. Young Tycho and his darling cousin, Manderup Parsberg (because apparently that is a name), got into several quarrels about maths and ended up whipping out their swords and ultimately losing a nose. The conflicting reports start at what Tycho's nose was made out of. It was alleged during his lifetime that Mr. Brahe really classed up his face with precious metal noses - silver, gold, perhaps on very special occasions a diamond studded platinum piece - but after his death, in the name of science, Tycho's remains have been examined. And that green stuff found on Brahe's face leads one to believe it was copper.

Really, grave diggers? You couldn't have let a dead man have the dignity of having a badass gold nose? Sure, they can say that Tycho mostly wore a brass nose because it was lighter and only whipped out the silver nose when he wanted to impress Kirsten Jørgensdatter or his drunken moose, but I like to believe that a man who hung around with psychic dwarves had the class to wear an extra expensive nose daily.

Tycho Brahe's moose, who I have decided to name Moosenfoose.

I may have lost you with all the talk of dwarves and drunken moose, but hey. I only promised you one awesome fun fact. If you would like to learn the tragic tale of how Mr. Brahe's moose tied one too many on and died tripping down some stairs, may I recommend finding your own super-powered dwarf? Perhaps one that can commune with the dead.