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Just spent the past half hour looking through this, most of it seems referenced quite well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
The ancient ones are clearly myth but the modern deaths are quite shocking, morbid curiosity keeps me reading 😈
207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after giving his donkey wine then seeing it attempt to eat figs.
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Very good, [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whole-World-Katie-Price-Peter/product-reviews/B000JU8FXK/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 ]here's[/url] my favorite Amazon page. Reviews of Katie Price and Peter Andre's album, which doesn't sound like it would be worth reading, but
If you can imagine a soothing blend of jojoba oils, vanilla, and WD40 being poured into both ear holes simultaneously, then you will have only been able to scratch the surface of the feast of pleasure that is Katie And Pete's "A Whole New World" Album. Similar in it's ambition to Wagner's "ring cycle" but less German, "A Whole New World" is one of the best sound combinations that has ever been recorded. I also found the case very useful for replacing a tile that had been missing in my bathroom for the past two and a half years. A TRIUMPH!
*ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR THOSE WITH TILED BATHROOMS*
And there's loads like that.
Ha I've had to stop myself reading on with that list of misconceptions page so as not to ruin future episodes of QI for myself!
And 😆 at the amazon page, I love those, just like the '3 wolfs t-shirt' one...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Three-Wolf-Adult-T-Shirt/dp/B002DGFYFA
Whoever wrote the first review is a genius of newton/einstein/feynman proportions, only in writing reviews not theoretical physics...
THIS IS HOW I WANT TO GO
2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.
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270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus of Naucratis to have studied arguments and erroneous word-usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death.[5] Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.[6]
A few on here who need to beware....
lol @ bedmaker 😆
Classic.
1601: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, according to legend, died of complications resulting from a strained bladder at a banquet. As it was considered extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal was finished, he stayed until he became fatally ill.
Realman - I'll happily meet my end either by your example or this -
1814: London Beer Flood, 9 people were killed when 323,000 imperial gallons (1,468,000L) of beer in the Meux and Company Brewery burst out of their vats and gushed into the streets.
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