TIL when mathematician Évariste Galois was still in his teens, he was able to solve a problem that had been open for 350 years. Then at the age of 20, for reasons that remain obscure, he fought in a duel and died from the wounds he suffered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois
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