The world is an ironic place, but just try imagining the most facepalm moment you’ve ever had and multiply that by a thousand. That still won’t come close to some of the strangest and most annoying coincidences to occur over the course of time. Whether it’s slicing off a finger on a blender you created or drowning in a puddle, this list from Distractify convinced me that it’s probably happened somewhere.
Here are some of the most ironic moments in history!
1. A man once drowned in a pool party that was celebrating a year with no drownings at a New Orleans Pool.
It was attended by a 100 lifeguards.
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2. The building holding the patent to the fire hydrant burned down in 1836.
So nobody knows who invented it.
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3. John Morales, an actor who played McGruff The Crime Dog, was imprisoned for possessing 1,000 pot plants and a grenade launcher.
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4. Gary Kremen, the founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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5. “ Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia ” is the fear of long words.
Yeah, try pronouncing THAT.
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6. In 2014, a Los Angeles memorial tree dedicated to George Harrison was killed by an infestation of beetles.
For the uninitiated, George Harrison played in The Beatles.
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7. A statue of a homeless Jesus sleeping on a bench was installed in Orlando where the homeless are banned from sleeping on benches.
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8. In 1974, 80,000 lapel buttons created by the government to promote toy safety were recalled as their edges were too sharp.
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9. Condoms were given out at a Canadian university with notes attached promoting safe sex. These were later recalled because the staples used to fasten the note had punctured the condoms.
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10. Barry Manilow’s 1976 hit ‘I Write The Songs,’ was written by Bruce Johnson.
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11. Union General John Sedgwick was shot and killed moments after standing from his trench and telling his men to stand because Confederate soldiers ‘couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.’
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12. A man sued the Guinness Book of World Records for damages after they awarded him the world record for ‘ Most Lawsuits Ever Filed ‘, at over $ 10,000.
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13. Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century by the Chinese alchemists who were attempting to find an ‘elixir of immortality.’
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14. Otto Lilienthal, creator of the flying glider, died after a flight crash.
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15. William Bullock, creator of the rotary printing press, died from injuries at the hands of his own machine.
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The world is a cruel mistress.
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