Youtube stuntman Pedro Ruiz aka "The Crazy Pedro" wanted to see if an hardcover encyclopedia could stop a bullet from a 50- Caliber Desert Eagle. He ordered his pregnant girlfriend to shoot the book while he stood behind it. When she shot, the bullet went through the encyclopedia and killed Pedro.

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Tear gas canister lodged in the skull of an Iraqi protestor from 2019.

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In 2005, a man who attempted to commit suicide changed his mind at the last minute resulting in a chain reaction train wreck killing 11 and injuring 177. He was later sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences.

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Kevin Carter, the photographer who took this photo of a starving African child with a vulture waiting for her death, committed suicide 3 months after this picture.

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Istvan Reiner, aged 4, smiles for a studio portrait, shortly before being murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.

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The final photo of Pavel Kashin, a free runner and Parkour enthusiast who died when he was trying to back flip and lost his balance falling 16 stories to his death.

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In 2019, Steven Weber swam to his girlfriend who was inside their underwater hotel room while on vacation in Tanzania, and proposed to her with a note and a ring seen here. He died before he could resurface from the water in this picture.

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In 2021, a tourist in the Philippines was attacked by a crocodile after mistaking it for a plastic model and climbing into its pool to pose for selfies.

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25-year-old Shamaiya Hall stabbed all 5 of her children as a Child Protective Service caseworker tried to remove them from the home, murdering her 6-year-old son and her 5-year-old twins. Her sister, Troyshae Hall, had been arrested 2 years prior for fatally stabbing one of her children as well.

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Alexandra Tobias killed her 3-month-old by shaking him because he was crying while she was playing Farmville.

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On April the 11th 1890, Joseph Merrick wanted to do what most of us take for granted, he wanted to sleep lying down. This simple act dislocated his neck and he died from asphyxiation aged just 27.

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Mary Vincent was 15 when Lawrence Singleton picked her up hitchhiking. He raped the teen, cut her arms off with a hatchet, and tossed her over a cliff. Miraculously, she climbed out and walked nearly three miles to safety.

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This photo was taken in a zoo in New Delhi, India, moments before this white tiger dragged this man by the neck into his den, where he eventually killed him. The whole fiasco lasted for about 15 minutes after the man, who tried to climb up the fence to see this rare tiger up close, slipped and fell into the cage.

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17-year-old Russian teenager Xenia Ignatyeva just wanted to take an epic selfie, and fortunately for her, she was able to capture it. Sadly though, she wasn’t able to live to share and tell the story herself, as she ended up losing her balance and falling to her death moments later.

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The guy pictured below is Ali Khan Samsudin, a famous snake charmer who regularly performed stunts with cobras. He is most known for locking himself in a room with 400 cobras for 40 days – something most people would consider their worst nightmare. Sadly, after years of doing this, one cobra decided it had enough of the “Snake King” and bit him fatally back in 2006.

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Pictured below are the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov as Soviet officials pay their respects at his open-casket funeral. He was the first cosmonaut to fly into space more than once. Sadly, he died after the Soyuz 1 space capsule he was on had a parachute failure upon reentry.

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Jose Melena was at work loading pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long pressure cooker when a coworker filled it up with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on for 2 hours while Jose was still inside. He was boiled to death.

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Texas Exotic Dancer Abigail Saldaña was shot and killed by her stalker 2 weeks after finding a tracking device he had placed on her car. After spending thousands of dollars a day on her, Stanley Szeliga wanted a relationship. When Abigail declined, he chased her down in traffic and shot her 3 times.

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Video of the tracking device put in Abigail's car.

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31-year-old Satanist Jaime Osuna was charged for killing his cellmate, 44-year-old Luis Romero. When Luis was asleep, Jamie killed him with a make-shift knife. He went on to cut off hia head, fingers, eyes, and ears, making himself a necklace out of Luis's body parts, that he wore in the prison.

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Transgender teen Brayla Stone, was found upside down dead inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head just 3 weeks after her 17th birthday. Her boyfriend, 20 year old Trevone Miller, admitted to killing her after she threaten to "expose him" and he "didn't want people to think he was gay."

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