Rasputin, Russian mystic healer, was killed by cyanide poisoning, beating, execution blank range, and finally thrown into an icy river. His autopsy revealed that it was the river that killed him.

The greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by a tortoise, dropped on his head by an eagle.

Each year, worldwide, more people die from firearms than from drowning.

In 2005, a Welsh rugby fan named Geoff Huish had so little faith in his national team's victory against England that he declared : “If Wales win, I'll cut my balls off.”