stackyFACTSGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel spent his life explaining the absolute progression of time, but his personal timing was tragically bad. When cholera hit Berlin, he fled to the countryside, only returning when he wrongly assumed the coast was clear. He caught the disease immediately upon returning and died within days.
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