[Death fact 1] In 2017, Italian artist Gaetano Pesce faked his own death to force the mayor of Florence to open his exhibition to the public.
[Death fact 2] In 1763, a vigilante group named the Paxton Boys massacred the Conestoga Indian tribe, near Lancaster Pennsylvania. The few tribesmen that survived were put in jail to protect them. The jail was later broken into and the Indians were slaughtered.
[Death fact 3] Serial killer Thor Christiansen was only caught because his fifth would-be victim survived a shot to the head in 1979. She recognized him months later in a bar and reported him to the police. Law enforcement then linked him with four other then-unsolved murders that had a similar MO. After his arrest, law enforcement officers realized they had investigated him as a suspect (among approximately one hundred others) in 1977. Christiansen died after being stabbed in the exercise yard at Folsom State Prison. His killer was not identified.
[Death fact 4] A Polish pianist named André Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company after his death, as he wanted it to be used for Yorick in productions of Hamlet. It took 26 years for his wishes to be realized as no one wanted to use them. In 2008, David Tennant finally used it.
[Death fact 5] Philosopher Kurt Gödel starved to death whilst his wife was in the hospital because he had an obsessive fear of being poisoned and would only eat food that she cooked.
[Death fact 6] Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton a.k.a. ‘The Pig Farmer Killer’ confessed to murdering 49 women between 1983-2002. Vancouver PD had received a number of tips about prostitutes going to his farm and never being seen again. One time he was even arrested for attempted murder but not charged because the woman was a heroin addict. Authorities did nothing but managed to collect some physical evidence (mostly clothes) that would later connect him to two more of his victims, but only after it sat in an evidence locker for over 7 years, completely forgotten. There’s even speculation that he ground his victims up with pork that he may have sold to the public. He had massive parties at his farm all the time and most probably served the tainted meat to his guests. After he was arrested he said he was disappointed that he didn’t get to 50 women and was caught because he was “sloppy”.
[Death fact 7] In 1993, Garry Hoy, a lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, fell to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre while demonstrating to a group of visitors that the building's windows were "unbreakable". Hoy threw himself against the glass, which indeed did not break; rather, the window popped out of its frame.
[Death fact 8] Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa attempted suicide in 1971 by slashing his throat. He had been unable to secure financing for his films, fired from a 20th Century Fox epic production, and considered by many as old-fashioned. His hardships continued until the mid-1980s when he made the movie Ran, his last masterwork.
[Death fact 9] A Greek lawgiver named Charondas from Sicily issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly after hunting in the countryside with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.
[Death fact 10] In 1948 , a dying farmer named Cecil George Harris scratched his will on the fender of the tractor he was trapped beneath, and the courts accepted it as legally binding
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