SARDONIC MOMENTS

IN 1871 LAWYER CLEMENT VALLANDINGHAM SHOT

HIMSELF IN THE HEAD DURING A TRIAL WHERE

HE WAS TRYING TO PROVE THAT THE VICTIM

COULD HAVE SHOT HIMSELF.

IN 1989 CONVICTED MURDERER MICHAEL GODWIN

HAD HIS DEATH SENTENCE (ELECTRIC CHAIR) REDUCED

TO LIFE IN PRISON. SHORTLY THEREAFTER HE WAS

KILLED BY ELECTROCUTION WHILE TRYING TO

FIX THE TV IN HIS CELL.

A TEN GALLON HAT ONLY HOLDS 3/4 OF A GALLON

ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON SUFFERED FROM

CHRONIC SEASICKNESS

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL NEVER GOT TO TALK

TO HIS WIFE OR HIS MOM ON THE PHONE BECAUSE

THEY WERE BOTH DEAF.

IN 1974 THE US GOVERNMENT HAD TO RECALL 80,000

LAPEL BUTTONS THAT THEY HAD CREATED TO

PROMOTE TOY SAFETY. APPARENTLY THE EDGES WERE

TOO SHARP, THEY CONTAINED LEAD PAINT, AND

WERE A CHOKING HAZARD.

ACCORDING TO SOME SOURCES, IN 1788 THE AUSTRIAN

ARMY ATTACKED ITSELF AND LOST 10,000 MEN

(BATTLE OF KARÁNSEBES).

PART OF BILL GATE'S HOUSE WAS DESIGNED ON A MAC