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You never know how or when you’re going to go. There are many ways to die, but some are definitely waaaayyy more bizzare than others.
Scroll down to read some of them, and try your best not to get super paranoid afterwards.
- A popular American dancer was strangled by a long scarf she was wearing when it got caught in the hubcap of her car!
In September 1927, Isadora Duncan was learning to drive her brand-new convertible. She leaned back and her scarf got tangled, tightening around her neck and dragging her from the seat onto the road.
- The owner of the Segway company died by riding one off a cliff.
In 2010, less than a year after purchasing Segway Inc, Jim Heselden was riding a Segway near his home in Yorkshire, England, when he accidentally fell more than 9m into a river.
- Multiple people have died from water poisoning – as in literally drinking too much water.
Hyponatremia happens when sodium levels fall too low. In 2007, one woman drank 6l of water in three hours to win a Nintendo Wii in a contest. She threw up and died several hours later. Overhydration has killed many athletes as well.
- A New York congressman died from shaving in 1921 because his brush was covered in anthrax.
Michael F Farley was admitted into the hospital after complaining of swelling and "severe pains". They later attributed his death to anthrax that had formed in his shaving brush from whatever animal the brush was made from.
- A wool mill owner died from suffocation after accidentally getting wrapped in roughly 731m of yarn.
Paul Thomas fell into a machine that wound wool from one large spool to a smaller one.
- A British health food fanatic drank too much carrot juice and died from the damage it did to his liver.
According to the coroner, Basil Brown "drank himself to death" in 1974.
- Playwright Tennessee Williams choked on a plastic bottle cap.
His body was found in New York City in February 1983, with the "plastic cap of the type used on bottles of nasal spray or eye solution" lodged in his throat. Medical examiners concluded he was trying to take other drugs using the cap and must've accidentally swallowed it.
- In 1919, a giant molasses tank burst, resulting in a sticky, awful flood that killed 21 people in Boston.
Over eight million litres of molasses flooded the streets of the Massachusetts city, splashing up to 4.6m high, drowning horses and even ruining a train platform.
- A queen of what is now Thailand died from drowning in front of many people in 1880, because it was an offense to touch royalty — even to save her life.
Queen Sunanda Kumariratana of Siam was pregnant when her boat flipped over, but touching the queen could mean punishment by death, so people stood by, helpless, as she died.
- In 2013, a man in Brazil was killed when a cow fell through his roof onto him while he was sleeping.
It’s assumed that the cow had escaped from a nearby farm, climbed onto his roof, and fell through. Joao Maria de Souza died from internal bleeding and the cow’s owner was expected to be charged with involuntary manslaughter. de Souza's wife and the cow escaped unharmed.
- Several people died from exhaustion during a "dancing plague" in 1518.
Around 400 people began to dance and were physically unable to stop for about two months during one of the most unusual "dancing manias" of all time. Apparently, situations like this happened more than once between the 10th and 16th centuries, and many blamed demonic possessions.
- King Adolf Frederick of Sweden ate himself to death when he overate, and his body failed to digest a giant meal.
He died after eating lobster, sauerkraut, champagne, caviar, and 14 servings of dessert in 1771.
- In 1947, a man living in New York City suffocated when he got caught in a booby trap he'd created himself.
Langley Collyer and his brother were notorious hoarders who set up traps to make sure people stayed out of their home. Police found his body about a month after he had died, and theorised that Langley tripped a booby trap he had created and was crushed by debris.
- Whiskey distiller Jack Daniel died from a toe infection that spread throughout his system.
Yes, THE Jack Daniel apparently always forgot the combination to a safe at work. To open it, he would kick the safe, jamming his toe in the process. When the toe got infected, he had to have his foot amputated — but the remnants of the infection spread, and he died in 1911.
- A Danish nobleman died from a burst bladder after refusing to go pee during a dinner party, because he didn't want to be rude.
Tycho Brahe thought it would breach etiquette to leave to use the restroom during a royal banquet in 1601, so his bladder ruptured, causing him to die.
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