Most Ironic Facts Of All Time That You Never Knew About

#1 Could you imagine losing your girlfriend to your own creation?

That’s what happened to the founder of Match.com, who lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com. OUCH!

#2 William Bullock, creator of the rotary printing press, died from injuries at the hands of his own machine.

#3

Noah Webster developed a book, the Blue Backed Speller.It succeeded. It was actually the most popular book of its time; by 1890 it had sold 60 million copies.He started writing a dictionary, which he called, boldly, An American Dictionary of the English Language. He wanted it to be comprehensive, authoritative.

#4 Beard is the drummer for ZZ Top and former band member of the Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues.

ZZ Top was originally formed in 1969, in Houston Texas. The band, with the original members, is still making records and touring today, which makes them the second longest running band that still has the same members as when they started.

#5 The body of Jerome Moody was found on the bottom at the deep end of a department pool as the party ended.

Mr Moody, who was 31 years old, was not a lifeguard, but four lifeguards were on duty at the party.

#6 Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, has died after riding one of the two-wheeled machines off a cliff and into a river.

The Segway is a motorised scooter which use gyroscopes to remain upright and is controlled by the direction in which the rider lean

#7 Lawyer Clement Vallandingham died in 1871 after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a pistol.

Vallandingham was defending a client on murder charges, by proving that the victim could have shot himself with his own pistol. In re-enacting the process, Vallandingham shot himself by mistake.

#8 According to legend, somewhere between 1915 and 1921, Chaplin decided to enter a Chaplin look-alike contest and lost, badly.

#9 Otto Lilienthal, creator of the flying glider, died after a flight crash.

#10 Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century by the Chinese alchemists who were attempting to find an 'elixir of immortality.'

Ancient alchemists in China spent centuries trying to discover an elixir of life that would render the user immortal.One important ingredient in many of the failed elixirs was saltpetre, also known as potassium nitrate.