You know how everybody posted about that woman who died of water intoxication just to win a Wii by holding her wee?

well, she’s been added to a list compiled on Wikipedia lol… a list of unusual deaths, that is… My top 25 (which means the most unusual, not the way i want to go lol) are:

1- 212 BC: Archimedes (a Greek mathematician) was said to have have been doing a math problem in the sand of his town, Syracuse, Sicily, when an army invaded. A soldier interrupted Archimedes who just replied, “Do not disturb my circles”. The soldier then killed him.

2- 207 BC: Chrysippus (a Greek stoic philosopher) is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs.

 3- 1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.

 4- 1601: Tycho Brahe, according to legend, died of complications resulting from a strained bladder at a banquet. It would have been extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal was finished, so he stayed until he became fatally ill.

5- 1671: François Vatel (chef to Louis XIV) committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn’t stand the shame of a postponed meal. His body was discovered by an aide, sent to tell him of the arrival of the fish.

6- 1834: David Douglas (Scottish botanist) fell into a pit trap accompanied by a bull. He was mauled and possibly crushed.

7- 1861: Noble Leslie Devotie (founder of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity) died as he was about to board a steamer at Fort Morgan, Alabama: he made a misstep and fell into the water. Three days later his body was washed ashore. He was the first man to lose his life in the American Civil War.

8- 1884: Allan Pinkerton (detective) died of gangrene resulting from having bitten his tongue after stumbling on the sidewalk.

9- 1899: (French president) Félix Faure died of a stroke while being fellated in his office.

10- 1911: Jack Daniel (founder of the Tennessee whiskey distillery) died of blood poisoning six years after receiving a toe injury when he kicked his safe in anger at being unable to remember its combination code.

11- 1927: J.G. Parry-Thomas (a British racing driver) was decapitated by his car’s drive chain which, under duress, snapped and whipped into the cockpit. He was attempting to break his own Land speed record which he had set the previous year. Despite being killed in the attempt, he succeeded in setting a new record of 171 mph.

12- 1927: Isadora Duncan (dancer) died of accidental strangulation and broken neck when her scarf caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.

13- 1941: Sherwood Anderson (writer) swallowed a toothpick at a party and then died of peritonitis.

14- 1943: Lady be Good (a USAAF B-24) bomber lost its way and crash landed in the Libyan Desert. Mummified remains of its crew, who struggled for a week without water, were not found until 1960.

15- 1953: Frank Hayes (jockey) suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.

16- 1971: Jerome Irving Rodale (an American pioneer of organic farming) died of a heart attack while being interviewed on The Dick Cavett Show. When he appeared to fall asleep, Cavett quipped “Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?”. The show was never broadcast.

17- 1977: Tom Pryce (a Formula One driver) and a 19-year-old track marshal Jansen Van Vuuren both died at the 1977 South African Grand Prix after Van Vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by Pryce’s car at approximately 170mph. Pryce was hit in the face by the marshal’s fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.

18- 1981: Knud Ejler Løgstrup (a Danish philosopher and theologian) died from a heart attack after chasing a mouse in his kitchen.

19- 1982: Vic Morrow (actor) was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie, along with two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen.

20- 1983: Tennessee Williams (American playwright) died choking on a bottle cap. He was in a hotel but was too drunk to leave his room or make sufficient noise to attract attention.

21- 1984: Jon-Erik Hexum (an American television actor) died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. Whether he committed suicide or was simply unaware of the potentially deadly effects of the blank round was not determined.

22- 1998: Tom and Eileen Lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The group’s boat accidentally abandoned them due to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. The couple was left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. Their bodies were never recovered. The incident is described in the film Open Water.

23- 2005: 28-year-old Korean video game addict Lee Seung Seop collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing Starcraft and World of Warcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours.

24- 2006: Steve Irwin (a television personality and naturalist known as The Crocodile Hunter) died when his heart was impaled by a short-tail stingray barb while filming in Queensland’s Batt Reef.

25- 2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii in a KDND 107.9 “The End” radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating.

Yea, i know, i’m weird… get the full list here :p