Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti had an…interesting love life. After his first wife committed suicide, he struck up a relationship with a woman who was already married—to a friend of his. (Source)
Rossetti dropped out of school, deciding that it wasn't for him. (Don't listen to him, kids. Stay in school.) (Source)
Later in life, Rossetti began to self-medicate with a drug called chloral hydrate to help him with his insomnia. It worked, but also caused him to become paranoid and delusional. (Source)