Top Items About Dumb Deaths
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Count Stenbock: Temper Tantrum | In a drunken rage, Count Eric Magnus Andreas Harry Stenbock once attacked a friend with the poker used to stoke the fire.... | Anonymous | 185 | |
| Anecdotes | Sacred cows & the death of Raja Rudra Pratap | Construction of the Raj Mahal, a palace in Orchha in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, was begun by Raja Rudra Pratap some... | root | 142 | |
| Anecdotes | Amazing Joe Burrus | "Escape artist Amazing Joe Burrus, a recovering drug addict, wanted to give back to society by performing a... | Anonymous | 109 | |
| Anecdotes | Te Deum | The baton used by seventeenth-century conductors was much longer and heavier than the tiny instruments employed today.... | Anonymous | 65 | |
| Anecdotes | Tughluq Dynasty | "Ghiyjas ud din Tughluq wanted to shift the capital from Delhi to a new city Tughluqabad. His soldiers approached Nizam... | Anonymous | 62 | |
| Anecdotes | Thomas Ottway: On a Roll? | "A poor man, Thomas Ottway had gone days without food and was driven by hunger to begging. He was given a guinea, bought... | Anonymous | 60 | |
| Jokes | Steve Irwin: Snake Bite | Steve "the Crocodile Hunter" Irwin once saw an Indian man get bit on the toe by a snake. "I never go anywhere... | Anonymous | 58 | |
| Anecdotes | Well-Kept Secret | The famed magician Lafayette insisted that the pass door - the small door leading from the stalls into the wings - be... | Anonymous | 49 | |
| Anecdotes | Lionel Johnson: Alcohol Kills | In 1902, the English critic and poet Lionel Johnson died in a bar. The cause of death? Various injuries arising... | Anonymous | 48 | |
| Trivia | Duels of Honor in the Middle Ages | The duel of honor was supposed to cut back on unchecked violence—on the assassinations, vendettas, and unruly affrays... | root | 46 |
