6 Dumbest Ways People Have Actually Died

Thomas Midgley Jr. – The Genius Who Was Strangled By His Own Invention

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a brilliant American chemist who invented leaded petrol and CFCs—two inventions that killed millions. But his own death was even more ironic. At 51, he contracted polio and became disabled. He designed a complex system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. On November 2, 1944, he got tangled in his own contraption and was strangled to death. A man who accidentally killed millions was killed by his own ropes.