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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 3:24:07 GMT -5
Great thread, will dig out some stories maybe later in the evening.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 16, 2020 3:28:11 GMT -5
Jim Fixx wrote several books about how running was a great form of exercise and would extend your life. He suffered a massive heart attack and died while jogging at age 52. I mean, he wasn't wrong. It just tends not to work quite as well on people who are genetically predisposed to heart disease, smoke a pack a day for 20 years, undergo a lot of stress, and substitute exercise for regular medical check-ups.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 16, 2020 12:57:47 GMT -5
Terry Kath, the guitarist in Chicago, who I believe to prove his gun wasn't loaded, put it up to his head and pulled the trigger, except there was a bullet in the chamber and he blew his head off.
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Post by Zenengage on Sept 16, 2020 20:10:03 GMT -5
There were chemists back in the 1800s who demonstrated (on themselves) the adsorptive properties of activated charcoal by taking it with lethal quantities of poisons... and surviving. M. Bertrand did it with arsenic and PF Touery did it with strychnine.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Sept 16, 2020 20:45:23 GMT -5
Terry Kath, the guitarist in Chicago, who I believe to prove his gun wasn't loaded, put it up to his head and pulled the trigger, except there was a bullet in the chamber and he blew his head off. That dude on tiger king did that too
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Post by Sparvid on Sept 17, 2020 0:55:51 GMT -5
Jon-Erik Hexum died by purposefully shooting himself in the head with a blank round, not realizing that even though there was no bullet involved, blanks can still be very much harmful in such a short range.
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Post by dav on Sept 17, 2020 6:39:26 GMT -5
Wasn't there an officer in the American Civil War who mocked the other army's accuracy by popping his head above a trench and got a bullet for his troubles?
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Post by ronin705 on Sept 17, 2020 7:07:50 GMT -5
Waiting on some of thes anti masker "karens" (ugh, i do not cosign that term smh) to fall the way of natural selection
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Sept 17, 2020 18:35:56 GMT -5
Franz Reichelt testing the homemade parachute that he invented by jumping off the Eiffel Tower back in 1912. (The footage exists on a pathe news reel if you feel compelled to watch it.) For anyone curious (not graphic, thankfully): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2020 18:50:03 GMT -5
Franz Reichelt testing the homemade parachute that he invented by jumping off the Eiffel Tower back in 1912. (The footage exists on a pathe news reel if you feel compelled to watch it.) For anyone curious (not graphic, thankfully): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_USeen this before. You can sense before he jumps that he's having second thoughts.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 18, 2020 0:52:45 GMT -5
Seen this before. You can sense before he jumps that he's having second thoughts. from my understanding he knew it wasn't ready for a field test / that it wouldn't work... but didn't want to admit it to the press.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 18, 2020 17:47:01 GMT -5
Wasn't there an officer in the American Civil War who mocked the other army's accuracy by popping his head above a trench and got a bullet for his troubles? There's multiple accounts of this happening, not just in the Civil War, one or more of them tends to include the quote 'couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-' Also, this isn't quite an example of what this thread is about, but... The Schmidt sting pain index.A dude called Schmidt wrote a book about which insects had the most painful stings, and he did his research by... getting stung by all of them. He also doesn't just rate them, but describe them, like 'feels like forgetting to Earth the lightswitch' or simply 'why did I start this list?'
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Post by thetower52 on Sept 18, 2020 18:33:05 GMT -5
Wasn't there an officer in the American Civil War who mocked the other army's accuracy by popping his head above a trench and got a bullet for his troubles? There's multiple accounts of this happening, not just in the Civil War, one or more of them tends to include the quote 'couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-' Also, this isn't quite an example of what this thread is about, but... The Schmidt sting pain index.A dude called Schmidt wrote a book about which insects had the most painful stings, and he did his research by... getting stung by all of them. He also doesn't just rate them, but describe them, like 'feels like forgetting to Earth the lightswitch' or simply 'why did I start this list?' Guy on the YouTube channel brave wilderness did the whole list
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