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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
The deal with Howard Hughes, as far as I know, was that he crashed an experimental plane in the 1940's or something and it totally messed him up. He was eccentric before then but after the crash he was really odd. He was a pilot (Hughes Aircraft) and always flew the most extreme aircraft, totally cutting-edge, but he crashed and was never the same afterwards.
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In addition to the injuries he sustained, he also had neurosyphilis which was the primary cause of his spinning out of control behaviorally.