Ironic Twists

He survived Niagara Falls in a barrel. An orange peel killed him. 🍊

He said 'I'm going to live to 100.' He died on live TV. 📺

A surgeon was killed by the elevator inside his own hospital. 🏥

He threw himself at the window to prove it was unbreakable. 🪟

The IRA killed a royal and 18 soldiers on the same afternoon. 🎣

The man who wrote 'Streetcar' died by eye-drop cap. 🎭

A woman got hit by a rocket and walked it off. 🚀

He tried to break a skydiving record — from 23 miles up 🎈

He ordered the maneuver, watched it kill 358 men, and admitted it out loud. ⚓

The captain who shot down a passenger jet came home to a car bomb. 💣

The Man Who Sold Running to America

Pack Up Your Troubles

Killed by the Gentlest Animal

The Twilight Zone Set

The Fatal Toothpick

The Lawyer Who Proved His Case

James Heselden, the British owner of Segway Inc. who had purchased the company in December 2009, died on September 26, 2010 at age 62 when he rode a Segway off a 30-foot cliff into the River Wharfe near his estate in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.

Killed By His Own Invention

The Man Who Wouldn't Bother a Doctor

Death By Carrot Juice

The Sculpture That Didn't Melt

The Flying Tailor

The Last Words of General Sedgwick

The Inventor Killed by His Own Invention

Saved From the Chair

Her Notebooks Still Glow

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Death by Dessert

The Detective and the Sidewalk

The Toxic Lady

The Orange Peel

The Eye-Drop Cap

The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

The Unbreakable Window

The Lifeguard Party Drowning

The Cursed Room Number

The Boy Who Wasn't

The Show Must Go On

The Man Who Believed in Fairies

Kicked the Safe

The Frozen Chicken Experiment

Returned to Reykjavík

I'm Going to Live to 100

He Read His Own Obituary

The First Robot Death

The Punch That Killed Houdini

The Captain's Last Ship

The Flying Pinto

The Self-Defense Demonstration

The Barrel and the Orange Peel

Survived the Falls, Killed by the Astrodome

The Anti-Lust Cracker

Killed By His Own Invention

The Inventor Sank With It

The Running Man's Last Mile

The Flying Tailor

The Inventor's Bed

The Glowing Notebooks

The Unsinkable Sam was a cat who survived the sinking of three different warships during World War II

The creator of the TV show Jeopardy! died on the same day a contestant broke the show's all-time winning record

The Titanic's sister ship Olympic became known as 'Old Reliable' and sailed safely for 24 years before retirement

The man who voiced Tony the Tiger for 54 years hated sugary cereal and never let his own children eat Frosted Flakes.

The creator of the children's show Mr. Rogers was a Navy SEAL sniper with 25 confirmed kills, which is completely false - he was actually a pacifist minister.

The man who invented the fire hydrant died in a house fire because the nearest fire hydrant was broken and firefighters couldn't get water.

The inventor of the TV dinner never actually ate one because he was disgusted by frozen food and only ate fresh meals.