Imagine you’re Rome, yes you’re the empire
itself, and you’re minding your business when suddenly you see France collecting resources
in your territory! You send an emote to let them know that, one,
they shouldn’t be here, and two, they’re about to be crushed. You muster your troops and bring the hammer
down on France when… Oh no! It was an ambush! Rome is smashed by sneaky France. There’s nothing left to do but retreat and
gather your allies for revenge… This was a pretty stupid way to die and is
happening every day in Rise of Kingdoms, the epic strategy game. Use the link in the description to download
now and get details on their upcoming giveaway! An American rock band once said, “Do you
realize.... that everyone you know... someday... will die.” It’s pretty obvious, but it’s also quite
a sobering thought. None of us will be here, in say, 130 years. Maybe this video will still be out there,
a digital antique, and people will laugh at how weird we communicated when they see what
you guys have written in the comments. So, today we will embrace the fact that one
day we will all die, and you my friends can now sit back and enjoy what we’ll call the
“World Cup of Ridiculous Deaths.” 8. Don’t get friendly with some wild animals
Some people in this world of ours have mistakenly thought that wild animals are not actually
that wild, and so they have gotten up close to what we might call natural born killers
in the animal kingdom. Arguably the most famous case was that of
a guy named Timothy Treadwell. If you haven’t seen the movie about his
exploits called “Grizzly Man”, we suggest you do that at some point. Treadwell spent many summers in Alaska living
among grizzly bears, animals that can rip a person’s face off with one swipe. These animals are certainly fluffy and cute,
but they are not the kind of things we suggest you treat like a teddy bear. Treadwell was actually cautious with bears,
but he also got up close to them. Too close. After 13 summers with the bears, parts of
his clothing were found inside the stomach of a 28-year grizzly. His girlfriend was also eaten. So yes, you have to be careful when you are
around wild animals.It should be obvious, but it obviously isn’t obvious to some people. There are a few recent cases of people being
killed by wild animals. We don’t mean to make fun of these people
since their families are still grieving for them, but if we don’t say anything then
we won’t get the message across that you should not get up close to certain beasts. In 2018, a man in India decided he wanted
a selfie with a bear. That didn’t end well, since the apex predator
mauled him to death. Maybe you think that’s unusual, but quite
a few people have taken mortal selfies with wild animals. In fact, the BBC reported in 2018 that there
had been a spate of deaths in India because people thought they could take selfies with
elephants. Our advice is, don’t do it, it’s not worth
the ‘likes’ on social media. In 2016, in China, a man thought it would
be a good idea to get up close to a Walrus at a wildlife park and take a selfie. The walrus wasn’t playing around, though,
and pulled the man into the water and killed him. A zookeeper also died while trying to help
the man. In 2015, officials at Yellowstone National
Park had to issue a stark warning to all visitors. That was, “PLEASE STOP TRYING TO TAKE SELFIES
WITH BISON.” Yep, there had been lots of cases of people
doing this, and while no one died, some people suffered very serious injuries after being
tossed around like a doll. It’s like this. Some folks hit flies away with their hands. They don’t like flies. Well, some animals don’t much like humans
being around them. Some of them even want to eat you. Unfortunately, it gets worse than this, as
you’ll now see. 7. The gun just went off
If you search online for people who accidentally shot and killed themselves you will find that
it happens quite often. Guns are not toys, and that’s why they have
safety mechanisms. There are too many cases of this happening
to mention, and a lot of them happened in recent months and years in the USA. We found another case of a partygoer dying
while messing with a gun. This case happened in India in 2018. Three guys were drinking when one man started
showing off his pistol. The gun accidentally went off and the man
died. It was reported in some Indian media that
guy was actually playing the game Russian Roulette…He lost. If you don’t know what this game is, it’s
putting one bullet in the chamber of a revolver and then spinning the chamber. You then put the gun to your head and pull
the trigger, hoping that the bullet isn’t the one in the chamber. You’d think someone would have to be crazy
to play this game, but if you look online you’ll find plenty of people who’ve died
this way. Some cases are quite recent and happened in
the USA. In Thailand in 2017, a man played this game
with his wife. That was a very bad move because he ended
up killing her. Be careful what you shoot at, too. In 1982, some guys in Arizona thought it would
be fun to shoot at massive saguaro cacti. One of the men shot at a 26 feet tall cactus
and a bit of it broke off. It landed on him and crushed him to death. The moral of the story is, never, ever, play
with guns. Don’t become a statistic…don’t end up
being talked about on the Infographics Show. The next dumb way to die is arguably an even
bigger killer around the world. 6. Death by Mushroom
Mushrooms grow everywhere, and some of the edible ones sometimes look a bit like the
poisonous ones. You wouldn’t believe how many people just
pick up some wild mushrooms, go home, eat them, and die. There are so many cases, and it seems most
mushroom deaths happen in Asia…but not all. In 2019, one French woman died and three others
were hospitalized after they had picked up some wild mushrooms they believed to be porcini
mushrooms. They weren’t. They were a mushroom known as a “death cap”,
which doesn’t sound like something you should eat. The lesson here is, you should never pick
your own mushrooms unless you are a mushroom expert. There are lots of deadly mushrooms in this
world of ours. These things have actually killed families,
and have injured or killed many people living in small communities. In 2014, 14 people in Northern California
became severely ill after eating mushrooms they had foraged. No one died, but they almost did. Three of the people needed liver transplants. We found other cases in the 90s when people
died in California after picking mushrooms they fought they could eat. The mushrooms again were Death Caps. Deaths Caps look like something you could
eat, but they also look a bit like magic mushrooms, the hallucinogenic mushroom. Not too long ago four men in the U.S. became
seriously ill after eating Death Caps. They thought they were going to get high and
talk about the meaning of existence. Instead they suffered severe liver damage. Ok, now to enter the realm of violent deaths
again. This is not how you’d want to go. 5. Be careful where you swim
It’s not really a dumb way to die if you just swim and something decides to eat you,
but it’s quite dumb if you’ve seen all the “don’t swim” signs that tell you
the water is full of massive crocodiles. It’s happened in Australia in recent years,
with one case involving a young man ignoring the signs and taking a dip. That swim ended up with the man being partly
eaten by a croc. It’s happened in the ocean when massive
saltwater crocodiles have taken people’s lives, but it’s also happened in rivers. There’s a stretch of water in Australia
called East Alligator River. Hmm, would you want to enter that river? Well, authorities in recent years have been
saying people know very well that they should not go in the water, but they do it as a kind
of dare. Some parts of this river you can wade across,
and there’s a notorious crocodile hotspot called Cahill’s Crossing. One guy tried to cross in 2017 and he didn’t
get very far. A crocodile took him and killed him. When he was taken he was only standing in
ankle-deep water. You should always do what those signs tell
you. We are not even going to mention how many
drownings there are when people swim in the ocean when signs say not to because of the
conditions. Just do what you are told, that’s our advice. The next one probably kills more people than
anything on this list. 4. Treating cuts
We’ll make this one short. Our advice is, if you cut yourself and you
have an open wound, then get it treated. Don’t just ignore it, because the cut might
become infected. You know what, scores of people don’t treat
their wounds and later they die from an infection. In the 17th century there was a famous case
and it involved a composer named Jean-Baptiste Lully. This guy loved dancing, and one particular
dance he enjoyed involved banging a staff on the floor. One day he missed the floor and hit his foot. This caused a pretty serious wound and it
led to an infection. Lully was told at the time that his infection
could kill him, and his leg would have to be amputated. The man said no, if I lose that leg, I won’t
be able to dance anymore. He died soon after. Now for something we might call completely
disgusting. 3. Over Eating
Yep, some people just eat too much in one sitting and die. There’s an old Monty Python movie that features
a man in a restaurant that eats until he explodes, and while that won’t happen, people can
die from consuming massive meals. It happened in the 18th century to Adolf Frederick,
the King of Sweden, aka, “The man who ate himself to death.” In one meal he ate lots of his beloved lobster,
dishes of caviar, some sauerkraut, some smoked herring, and he washed that down with lots
of champagne. After that, he had a whopping 14 servings
of semla served in a bowl of hot milk. Semla is like a cream bun. This meal was in fact not far from what that
guy ordered in the Monty Python movie. The King didn’t explode, but he couldn’t
digest that much food and he died. You can die of a reputed stomach, something
you might have seen in the movie called, “Seven.” The Lancet reported a case in the 1980s of
a slim London-based model dying because she ate too much. That publication said she had consumed, “a
half-pound steak, one pound of liver, two pounds of kidney, two eggs, one cauliflower,
10 peaches, four pears, four bananas, two apples, two glasses of milk, two slices of
bread and two pounds each of grapes, plums and carrots.” It was just too much and her stomach ruptured,
which means burst. Death by eating too much has happened at eating
competitions, too. A man in California recently died while taking
part in a taco-eating contest. A guy who watched the contest and saw this
man eat said, “It was like he’d never eaten before. He was just shoving the tacos down his mouth
without chewing.” The guy collapsed during the contest. It’s thought he choked to death. There are scores of stories of people dying
after eating too much. Look online and you will find them. One particular guy might have seen the movie
“Cool Hand Luke”, because in that movie Luke eats forty boiled eggs for a bet. This happened in India and it involved two
men. One guy bet his friend that he couldn’t
eat fifty raw eggs in one sitting. The man got to 41 and died. Doctors said his death was simply caused by
over-eating. The next on the list is the most surprising,
and disturbing. 2. Vitamin Overdose
Too much of a good thing can kill you, and that good thing could be a certain vitamin. Yes, consuming too many vitamins can be fatal. There is a famous case of a bunch of explorers
that had a terrible time on an Australasian Antarctic expedition. Two men died after falling into a crevasse
and two other guys got lost. They survived by eating the dogs they had
with them. The men got back to the basecamp but they
both fell very ill and one of them died. First he became terribly sick. His hair fell out... his skin peeled off...
he became delirious and then he died. Doctors now say these symptoms were in line
with a Vitamin A overdose. The vitamins apparently came from the dogs’
livers. Those guys didn’t have many options, but
some people choose to get too many vitamins down them. In 1974, a health advocate in London decided
to consume 70 million units of Vitamin A in around 10 US gallons (38 liters) of carrot
juice over a period of ten days. His skin turned yellow and he died. When you consume too many vitamins you can
suffer from something called “Hypervitaminosis”. This can be deadly, and you can find instances
of when it happened. You might get kidney damage and survive, but
you might also give up the ghost. It happened to a 10-year old boy in India
in 2016. He was prescribed vitamin D supplements, but
it was just too much and he overdosed. We found more recent cases in the UK when
people died after consuming too much vitamin D. In some cases it’s the doctor’s who
are dumb, not the consumers. We don’t want to scare you from getting
your essential vitamins…just don’t go crazy. And for the last one, you are going to see
that many young folks die every year from doing one stupid thing. 1. Deadly Deodorant
Ok, so we all want to smell good, but you should know that people have died from using
too much deodorant. These are sad stories since the victims probably
had an issue with how they smelled or what some people had said to them about their body
odor, but they really shouldn’t have gone crazy with that spray. In the 1990s a UK teenager died after spaying
himself with deodorant all the time. It wasn’t the fact that the stuff killed
him by getting in his skin, but the fact that he sprayed it too often in a confined space. He died because over time he just inhaled
too much spray. The autopsy showed 0.37mg of butane per liter
was in his blood. A level of 0.1mg per liter can kill you. It happened another time not that long ago
in the UK. A young man was obsessed with his smell and
he used deodorant all the time. In fact, an investigation found he had 45
cans of the stuff in his room. He inhaled too much, and died. His mother later said, “He would not take
showers but would stand there with a deodorant and spray half the can on him.” You can actually find lots of deodorant deaths
that happened in the UK and the U.S. over the last few years. It’s happened to both boys and girls. We won’t mention them all because there
are way too many. What we will say, is you should know that
this can happen. We don’t mean to make fun of those people,
but we want you to know the dangers. That’s why those sprays usually come with
the warning, “use in well-ventilated places.” Don’t forget, civilization is calling you
to battle, immortalize your journey! Download Rise of Kingdoms and get details
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