Top Ten Most Bizarre Deaths in History
In rare cases, people sometimes die from extremely unusual cases, and it's not only dying from laughter. Here are some known cases of bizarre deaths in history.There's a famous story from 456 BC saying that Aeschylus died because an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. Eagles often drop tortoises on hard objects to crack them open for eating, and the eagle mistook Aeschylus's head for a rock.
I bet people told him he was hard-headed, and what do you know?
In the 5th century BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker Charondas established a law that whoever brought weapons into the assembly must be executed. One day, he entered the assembly unaware that he still had a sword attached to his belt. Consequently, under his own law, he killed himself.
Philitas of Cos was known for his paranoia and obsession with correcting errors. Apparently, he tried to polish his knowledge of word errors and arguments so intensely that he starved himself to death.
When Claudius Drusus was playing, he threw a pear skywards. As it returned, he caught it in his mouth, choked on it accidentally, and died from lack of oxygen.
Martin the Humane is rumored to have died of laughter around 1410 AD while suffering from indigestion. The cause of his indigestion was that he had eaten an entire goose that might have been musty. However, the exact reason for his death is vague and lacks evidence.
Adolf Frederick, the King of Sweden, died on February 12, 1771, due to stomach problems after eating a large meal that included lobster and 14 servings of semla desserts, a sweet roll from Sweden.
Recent evidence shows that on August 22, 1888, meteorites fell in Iraq, killing one man. Another person was struck and left paralyzed. This is the only confirmed evidence of a person being killed by a meteorite.
That's funny yet fascinating at the same time.
Kurt Gödel was a well-known logician and mathematician with a paranoid personality. He feared being served by anyone other than his wife, fearing poisoning. When his wife was hospitalized for several months, Gödel eventually died of starvation due to his fear of being poisoned.
Robert Williams, a factory worker, was the first documented person to be crushed and killed by a robot's arm when he climbed into a storage rack.
In the 16th century, Hans Staininger, a burgomaster of Braunau, stumbled on his own beard and died from breaking his neck.
Amazing. Some idiot managed to turn his own beard into a lethal weapon.
The exact cause of Heraclitus's death is not known. Multiple sources, however, say that he either committed suicide, was devoured by dogs, or died from dropsy.
Hold your pee long enough, and you might end up rupturing your bladder, resulting in an inability to empty it afterwards. People usually do not die from a bladder rupture. It is a very slim chance, if not impossible. You are most likely to excrete your urine before rupturing your bladder.
According to rumors, Tycho Brahe succumbed to his death while trying to control his bladder, compounded by sickness. The reason Brahe decided to hold his bladder was that he did not want to break his politeness at a banquet party. This may have led to his difficulty in emptying his bladder later on. A few days after that incident, Brahe died, allegedly due to his bladder bursting. However, studies suggest he died from either inflammation, poisoning, or natural causes. Since his death occurred over 400 years ago, there is no exact cause of his death, making the story of his death from a "bladder burst" a myth.
In 375, Romans built fortifications near the Quadi territory in 373. The tribe was unhappy with the Romans' trespassing, so they started a protest. When Marcellianus set up a banquet to negotiate with the Quadic leaders, he killed them, sparking a war between the Quadi tribe and the Sarmatians. Roman legions poorly countered the ravaging tribes.
In late 374, Valentinian heard about the conflict but did not consider Marcellianus' misdeeds. He took action by punishing the Quadi. When he arrived at Brigetio during a campaign, he was informed that the conflict was rooted in building fortifications on their lands. This made Valentinian so furious that he died of a stroke while screaming at the envoys in a fit of rage.