Human stupidity is found at every step. But in the history of mankind there are cases when stupid behavior literally drove to death. After this information, the story will not seem like a collection of boring dates, it is full of funny, albeit sometimes sad facts.
1. Adolf Frederick. Death by caviar
Overeating can kill you, as our list confirms twice. The first victim of gluttony was the Swedish king Adolph Frederick, who ruled Sweden in the 1700s. Historians tell us that in 1771 his last meal consisted of caviar, an unheard of seafood, and sauerkraut.
This feast did not end there. Adolf consumed 14 more rolls, washed them down with milk. His stomach could not stand such an amount of food and simply burst open, and Frederick, of course, died. He was remembered as a good-natured ruler who loved to make snuff boxes, who gorged himself to death.
2. Lamplighter and homemade alarm clock
Sound sleep is a guarantee of health. And in order to wake up on time and be in time everywhere, people came up with an alarm clock. The lamplighter of the 1880s also had his own alarm clock. His engineering thought prompted to make this unit from watches, wire and stone weighing 4.5 kg. The day before, the man was celebrating something violently and came home in a deranged state. He moved the bed, and when the alarm went off in the morning, he got hit on the head with a stone. Of course, the lamplighter did not survive. Drunkenness and invention, incompatible things.
3. Death by baton
This is now the conductor's instrument - a thin graceful stick with which he controls the whole orchestra. And in 1600 it was a rather weighty unit. They were given the rhythm of each piece. So a conductor named Jean-Baptiste Lully conducted one evening during a performance for the French king Louis XIV. In the middle of the piece, he managed to hit himself on the leg with his heavy instrument. It would seem that it was not a fatal blow, but this guy was just out of luck. The wound developed gangrene, and Lully was one of those overly dramatic people who would not allow doctors to amputate because he wanted to be a dancer. Because of this, the conductor died in terrible agonies. Interestingly, the phrase "get lula" is somehow connected with this ridiculous death?
4. The "funny" death of the king
Remember how we said that overeating can kill? Well, the Swedish king wasn't the only one who died of indigestion. King Martin of Aragon lived in the late 1300s - early 1400s, and apparently thought one night that it was a brilliant idea to eat a whole roast goose. Aragon retired to his bedroom to sleep after his meal, but the king's jester, Borra, entered the royal chambers and told a joke. The joke was so funny that the king burst in his stomach while laughing, and he died. Moral of the story: Trying to eat a whole large pizza alone can be deadly.
5. Trying to hug the moon
This guy's name was Li Bo. He was one of the most famous poets in the history of Chinese literature and lived during the Golden Age of China. Bo wrote over 100 poems, and many of them survived thousands of years after his death. But not only his poems are fascinating, but also his death. The story goes as follows: Li Bo was sitting in a boat one night on the Yangtze River. He looked up into the sky in poetic observation, and then down at the reflection of the moon in ripples in the water. According to the stories, he was so fascinated by the beauty of the moon that he tried to embrace its reflection. While trying to embrace, Li Po fell out of the boat and drowned. We're not sure if this story is genuine, but it has entered Chinese culture and is the accepted version of the death of sweat.
