He filmed his own death from the Eiffel Tower. 🎥

Jean-Baptiste Lully conducted himself to death. 🎼

The creator of the children's TV show Barney was a former FBI agent who specialized in investigating organized crime before becoming a children's entertainer.

The man who invented the stop sign, Charles Adler Jr., died in a car accident at an intersection that didn't have a stop sign he had recommended be installed there.

The inventor of the Pringles can, Fredric Baur, was so proud of his design that he was cremated and buried in a Pringles can when he died in 2008.

Ben Underwood, a boy from Elk Grove, California who was diagnosed with retinal cancer at age two and had both eyes removed at age three, taught himself to navigate the world by human echolocation — clicking his tongue and interpreting the returning sound — and could ride a bicycle, skateboard, shoot baskets, and identify parked cars by clicking, until his death from the same cancer on January 19, 2009 at age 16.

A 12-year-old boy in Ohio started a bow tie business to pay for his adoption fees and earned enough to adopt 32 other children from foster care.

A hamster traded cryptocurrency from his own office. 🐹

Your grandmother's dinner plates were radioactive. ☢️

Seventeen bodies were found inside one medieval well. 💀

A frozen lake collected human skeletons for 1,000 years. 🦴

Egypt opened a black sarcophagus filled with red sewage. ⚰️

On September 15, 1830, MP William Huskisson became one of the first widely reported railway fatalities when he was struck by Stephenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, dying that evening after his leg was crushed.