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TIL that Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel, famous for the incompleteness theorem, became so paranoid of being poisoned that he only ate food prepared by his wife. When she was hospitalised for a few months after a stroke, he stubbornly refused to eat and died of starvation.

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