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 belisima rated 21 months ago - You can conquer the whole world but not manage to stop your own blood from killing you. I don't want to know how his wife felt at that night.
Attila the Hun:
One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila's army had conquered all of Asia by 450 AD-from Mongolia to the edge of th...
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 happyt3hman rated 6 months ago- Anyone who thumbed this up is a moron him/herself.
- gebohrt rated 19 months ago
- wonder if they are all true
- theAsocialApe rated 18 months ago
- a lot of those CODs are apocryphal
- Mac388 rated 19 months ago
- It's usually a good idea to research material before putting it on the 'net as factual.
"Attila the Hun:
One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila's army had conquered all of Asia by 450 AD-from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire-by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside.
How he died: He got a nosebleed on his wedding night..."
More likely, he died of ruptured esophageal varices.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/attilathehun/a/attilathehun_2.htm
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/528970_4
"Tycho Brahe:
An important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory of gravity.
How he died: Didn't get to the bathroom in time..."
Brahe probably died of mercury poisoning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Brahe.html
http://www.ips-plane tarium.org/planetarian/articles/howTychoDied/howTychoDied.html
"Horace Wells:
Pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s
How he died: Used anesthetics to commit suicide..."
Apparently true.
"Francis Bacon:
One of the most influential minds of the late 16th century. A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare's plays.
How he died: Stuffing snow into a chicken..."
He died of coincidental pneumonia a month later .
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/baconfra.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr ancis_Bacon#Death
"Jerome Irving Rodale:
Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.
How he died: On the "Dick Cavett Show", while discussing the benefits of organic foods..."
Apparently true.
"Aeschylus:
A Greek playwright back in 500 BC. Many historians consider him the father of Greek tragedies.
How he died: An eagle dropped a tortoise on his head..."
Nobody knows how Aeschylus died since there's no mention of it in Greek sources, but a tortoise tragedy is very unlikely.
"Jim Fixx:
Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze of the 1970s.
How he died: A heart attack....while jogging..."
True, but probably irrelevant since Fixx had a family history of heart disease and evidently had poor health habits prior to his taking up running.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/exe rcise_fitness/exercise_death.html
- belisima rated 21 months ago
- You can conquer the whole world but not manage to stop your own blood from killing you. I don't want to know how his wife felt at that night.
Attila the Hun:
One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila's army had conquered all of Asia by 450 AD-from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire-by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside.
How he died: He got a nosebleed on his wedding night.
In 453 AD, Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his reputation for ferocity on the battlefield, he tended to eat and drink lightly during large banquets. On his wedding night, however, he really cut loose, gorging himself on food and drink. Sometime during the night he suffered a nosebleed, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the next morning.
- otisagabey rated 19 months ago
- I was just here to correct the "moronland". Turns out others truthenized this load of bull before. Kudos to you.
- caddyss rated 19 months ago
- thats some funny shit
- Lil-Red rated 20 months ago
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Jerome Irving Rodale:
Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.
How he died: On the "Dick Cavett Show", while discussing the benefits of organic foods.
Rodale, who bragged "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," was only 72 when he appeared on the "Dick Cavett Show" in January 1971. Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: heart attack. The show was never aired.
** LR ~ never pays to be too smug; karma enjoys irony.
- mf481516 rated 21 months ago
- Very interesting. See also: "List of Unusual Deaths." Christine Chubbuck is one of the oddest.
- kryptonite rated 20 months ago
- ok, just to be clear, it wasn't the running that killed him.
got this one from DEATHBYSNOOSNOO.
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