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steveharris:
Empedocles, Pre-Socratic philosopher, secretly jumped into an active volcano [1] (Mt. Etna). According to Diogenes Laërtius, this was to convince the people of his time that he had been taken up by the gods on Olympus.
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AnthonyW:
this list is good and funny...how ironic: in 892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of a defeated foe to his leg, the tooth of which grazed against him as he rode his horse, causing the infection which killed him.
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