Ironic facts for people with a dark sense of humor

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A guy sued the Guinness Book of World Records for damages after they awarded him with the record for "most lawsuits filed" at over 10,000 They should have seen that coming.

#2

In 2014, an L.A. memorial tree dedicated to George Harrison was killed by an infestation of beetles.

#3

Barry Manilow's 1967 hit âÂ€Â˜I write the songs' was written by Bruce Johnson.

#4

Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and didn't even make the finals.

#5

The founder of Match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his wife to a man she met on Match.com.

#6

Union General, John Sedgwick, was shot and killed moments after standing in his trench and yelling to his men to stand because the confederate soldiers couldn't hit an elephant.

#7

In 1985, a man drowned at a pool party celebrating a summer without a drowning at the New Orleans municipal pool. There were around 100 lifeguards in attendance.

#8

The inventor of the fire hydrant is unknown because the building holding the patent burned to the ground in 1836.

#9

1n 1975, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission had to recall 80,000 badges promoting âÂ€Â˜toy safety'. The badges had sharp edges, lead paint and had small clips that could be broken off and swallowed.

#10

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

#11

John R. Morales, who played âÂ€Â˜McGruff the Crime Dog' was imprisoned for 16 years after police found 1,000 pot plants and a grenade launcher at his house.

#12

Orlando installed a statue of a homeless man sleeping on a bench in a part of town where the homeless are banned from sleeping on benches.

#13

A Canadian University gave out condoms to promote safe sex that had notes stapled through the condoms.

#14

Thomas Midgley, Jr. was an American engineer and chemist who was left severely disabled after contracting polio at age 51. He created a system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He died of strangulation aged 55 when he became accidentally entangled in the ropes of his device.

#15

There is a word for just about any kind of fear a person could conceivably have from the understandable to the truly strange. But what is the strangest fear of all? The fear of long wordsor rather the word for the fear of long words: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Yeah, that happened.

#16

People get divorced for all sorts of reasons, but what's the silliest? That award probably goes to a Bosnian couple that officially split in 2007 after the couple discovered that the secret online affairs they were both having happened to be with each other.

#17

The only member of ZZ Top that doesn't have a beard is named Frank Beard.

#18

Mothers like to tell children that playing too many video games will melt their brains. Actually, surgeons in the medical community who grew up playing video games make an average of 37% fewer mistakes than their video game illiterate colleagues.

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