10 People Who Tested Absolutely Terrible Ideas on Themselves 

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I fully support flat earthers building and testing their own homemade rockets.

There was believed to be a disease in Australia that was so painful and horrifying that people who got it would beg to be killed between the pain, spasms, and psychological effects. One dude thought it was caused by jellyfish, and to prove it he caught some, and had them sting him, then got his son and a friend to try it. Yes, he was right. After days of pain and weeks of recovery, he had proved his point. Definitely deserved a spot here.

The pilot trying to explain getting shot down by his own bullets to his superiors would certainly have been an interesting conversation 🤣🤣

May the Darwin Awards competitors be forever remembered for their bravery, creativity and...Darwinism.

The cocaine guy... He's like "I'm uhh, I'm gonna go test some of this... Uhh on myself.. yeah. I'm gonna do some tests.."

Getting stung hundreds of times by bees for an experiment is certainly not my idea of fun.

Everyone knows there is no such thing as “too much” cocaine. Just not enough money for the cocaine. Isn’t that right Simon (and Peter)?

I love that Simon still does his Top tens, I remember watching these over a decade ago. Thank you Simon for the literal decade of entertainment.

A couple of years ago a beehive got established inside the wall of my house, between the exterior and kitchen walls, under the sink. Dozens of bees would make their way into the kitchen daily until I got a beekeeper to remove the hive. This took about a fortnight, so I got used to treading lightly and opening the back door so they could follow the light back outside. One landed on my temple and walked across my left eyeball. Thankfully I was used to them buzzing around, so I just froze and stared straight ahead until it decided my face wasn't worth exploring and took off again. I'll take his word about the nostril, though.

I second that guy's finding. The inside of the nose is an awful place to get stung. I've been stung twice up the schnoz by wasps and I didn't enjoy it. It felt like being punched.

I've been stung on the side of the nose by a wasp and on the back of the head by a yellow jacket. Both hurt like hell and I don't recommend anyone try it on purpose.

The lawyer story is the funniest story I've ever heard. If it's actually true, it would be the funniest thing that anyones ever heard. Did everyone involved in that case die? I count 2 guns and 8 dead guys. Did the court clerk pick the gun up from the courtroom floor to put into the evidence locker, and trip down the stairs and shoot himself? That's one badass gun. If we had that gun in WWII, the war would've lasted a week.

"Gravity can't betray you when you eat an oyster" ...no, but eat a bad one and your stomach will certainly give you an approximation of anti-gravity...and have you reaching for the Gravol!

Clement Valandingham had also been a member of the US House of Representatives from Ohio. He was a leader of the "Peace Democrats", a group that wanted to end the American Civil War by granting independence to the Confederacy. Eventually, Lincoln banished Clement to the Confederacy, there was, I think, a book written about him entitled "Man Without a Country".

I knew Mad Mike Hughes. He was actually a genius…and like the video said, didn’t believe that flat-earth crap. He drove the limo at a paving company I used to work at. His “hobby on the side” was building rockets and jumping limos. (At one point he had the Guinness record for longest ramp jump…or some weird thing) He wanted to “revolutionize” the rocket industry with some hydro-powered something or another. He used to share my office, and order all the parts from around the world…all funded by himself, on a limo-driver salary. The longer he went, the bigger his rockets got. The bigger the rockets, the more expensive they were…until he finally couldn’t afford it himself anymore. Apparently…the flat earth dudes paid him $40,000 to put a sticker on the rocket, and snap a photo at the top. He was A LOT smarter than people think…and he played on that brilliantly.

*that last one proves that everyone needs a hobby and that some hobbies are best kept to oneself*

And the Darwin award goes to some of these people.

"Guy wins award for finding most painful place to get stung." Coyote Peterson 👀

What a great way to wake up! A nice cup of brew and Fact Boy talking at you in a basement. Cheers!

11:07 that headline! 'Attached a weight to the rear of chicken to see if it walked like a dinosaur" Lol!

SIMON!!!!! I know it’s a different channel, but please do a Biographics on Charles “The Hammer” Martel and the Battle of Tours !! Love the videos man you are a legend

Hi Simon and Co! Nice. A video of 9 people who make me feel smart to start my week with! 9, because although shooting stuff up your own bum is dumb, he saved lives.

If I'm given the choice, I'd prefer to die testing my own terrible idea than somebody else's. - If I survive, I've proved my idea. Fame and fortune will follow. - If I die, well, everybody has to die eventually. At least, it won't be for someone else's glory. Might even win a Darwin Award.

When I was about 11 or 12 I had a bee in my mouth during a little league game. I didn't know it was a bee, and I instinctually tried to spit it out. It ended up on my upper lip and it stung me on the front middle part of my nose, the part people get pierced like a bull. It felt like being punched by a grown man, moreover my eyes watered like faucets and the swelling gave me a slight lisp for a day or two. I don't like that memory.

Paralysis? It doesn't take a giant injection of cocaine to let one know it has a numbing effect lol

The cheapest ridge wallet is $125. Are you joking?

Troy Hurtubise was living in a city 60km from where I live when he invented the bear suit and Firepaste... The man was an unconventional genius that left us way too soon...

In 1970, in the wake of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring and to prove DDT was harmless, Robert Loibl and wife Louise, each took 10 miligram capsules of DDT every day at lunch for 93 days straight. The EPA banned use of DDT as a pesticide in 1972. The Loibls vanished into history.

Houdini also believed he could survive death. No word from him since.

"The Department of Defense regrets yo inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid."

4:30 Friends have since come forth to say he didn’t really think the Earth was flat, he just wanted his 15 minutes.

I remember Troy Hurtubise. He was from my town (North Bay, Ontario). Sadly after years of failed attempts to garner the support for funding the suit, he bankrupted and committed suicide (wiki says Vehicle accident, though there are doubts that it was accidental).

so card wallet with a money clip....no penny pouch or keyfob? ...just....a cavity tray......

A bee sting to the nostril being the most painful place to get stung? I can believe that. Ever have a nose hair pulled? 😫😵 😄

Hunley was not the last one to die in his homemade submarine, but at lest he wasn't using a game controller to navigate it.

also, in reference in #1: have you watched coyote peterson?

You sure that guy's name was Vallandigham and not Inspector Tiger or Chief Theresamanbehindyou? Gotta wonder if the Monty Python folks had heard that story...

franz reichelt was actually right about his window being to low. well the eifel tower is also likely no0t tall enough to properly test a human size parachute of any kind...

The pilot shooting himself down is an electric story. Why i watch my fact boy. Cant help to think these stories need to be individually covered on brain blaze

Rats will gain immortality before humans because whatever we come up with will be tested on them in a lab first.

I forgot you also do TopTenz.

Darwin Awards... INCOMING! 😉😂

Just to point out: Observation balloons go back several decades before airplanes and the ability to quickly egress from one rather than wait as it is slowly pulled back down or slowly loses buoyancy had been desirable long before 1900.

I love how some people will go to extraordinary lengths to answer questions that nobody else is asking...😒

I remember seeing the video when his rocket crashed to earth. This reminds me of the scientist who gave his life to prove something scientific. Can you still think after you've been decapitated? Instead of getting someone who has been condemned to die, he used himself. After the guillotine sliced his head off, the executioner held his head to the audience. They saw him blink his eyes multiple times. I think it was around 12 seconds before he stopped! I dunno, maybe he was suicidal. 😆

Always interesting, informative and entertaining 👍 team

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.

I clicked on this fully expecting to see my boy Franz, and I was not disappointed.

How much cocaine is too much…a question a lot of us asked back in the day.

Yep, welcome to 2022 80% advertising 20% content...

I just realized he's always wore glasses, and the fact I never noticed before scares me

I've had a ridge wallet for over a year now, the money clip is strong and it feels well made. My only issue is that it'll eventually eat a hole in your pocket like it did my Levi's

4:10 SIMON wake up, the earth is obviously Dinosaur-shaped 🦖

Totally believe it... got stung by a wasp on the nose once, definitely the worst sting I've gotten

That's an Ouch!

Simon your beard is becoming more magnificent by the video

How much cocaine is too much cocaine? “So anyway I started racking”

some of these people are darwin award winners

When me & my 2 younger brothers were children, we had huge forest behind our house at Quantico. Later learned it was the woods the FBI training facility used. But we were playing, climbed over huge log and my youngest brother, 5 yrs old at time, stepped down onto yellow jackets nest. In blink of eye, swarm covered him head to toe. He began screaming, running back home. Me & my other brother tried beating them off as we ran. They bit him all over, including eyelids, inside ears, mouth. My mom took him to hospital. He was bitten & stung over 175 times. He stayed in hospital almost week. Now if he is stung or bitten by bee, wasp, yellow jackets, hornets, anything, it will kill him.

7:14 You would have thought that he’d either do it in small enough increments that he could OD w/o dying; or have someone on hand during the experiments in case something went awry.

Just started the video. I'm wondering if you'll include Dr. Hazzard.

Maurice Wilson tried to solo climb mount Everest in 1933 to demonstrate the power of prayer and fasting...

When you watch one of those videos and recognise someone from school.... Michael has gone far

8:38 : The only time Uranus was a gas giant ....

Facts boy You gotta slow that BPM Everything feels like it's super rushed Even the cut away music Bring back old factboy

Well, now I know not to snort live bees….

2 minute ad at the start?! For a 10 minute video? Are you kidding me?

If there's not a Florida man in here someone hasn't done their research.

Sound could go faster than the speed of sound if for example the pilot is in a jet flying mach 2.5 and screams then the sound going forward is going Mach 3.5

pimples on the tip of your nose hurt so the bee sting checks out. it still didn't seem necessary however

Hold my beer and watch this moment’s. Precursors to the Darwin awards.

I didn't think you could overdose on cocaine lol Have you seen Scarface?? 😳

I would think that a bee sting on the eyeball would be more painful.

Testing bee stings on my junk can't say that's for me but more power to you

I bought a wallet when I was 13. I still have it and use it 22 years later. My goal is to have it for 30 years and MAYBE ill try out a Ridge wallet after.

Cool video but I disagree with the ordering. How is a bee sting on the nostril worse than falling to death with a bad parachute?

You can see the Hunly sub in Mt Pleasant, SC

I’m a disappointed, no room for Colonel John Paul Stapp in this list , he strapped himself in a rocket sled to study the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans.

Natural selection at work

Simon our dads are old and set in their ways. Well… mine’s dead. But point being they’re set in their ways.

So the bee sting guy didn't want to risk his own junk in testing the most "painful of all"? Huh

i mean the hunley submarine wasnt a terrible idea though was it then, considering it was the first submarine to sink a ship.

this video sounds like it will be terrifying

been runing a ridge wallet for bout a year now i got the forged carbon... it chips easy on corners but is easy to fix with some CA glue. i run 3 cards with some australian notes....... i like it but would love to be able to buy the panels seperately so i can mix n match :)

I wish I had pockets in all my pants so I could keep any wallet in them

10:55 fail, simon....fail...

Barry Marshall here? The guy who believed that most stomach ulcers were bacterial, and dosed himself with Helicobacter pylori. He was right, mostly. And he survived! Barry Marshall is a hero and a great man, but an absolute loon too!

Still waiting for Trump to test chlorine injection, he would be my Darwin Award all star

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Mig-25 has the world record for fastest fighter jet currently in service, but it's still leagues away from the X-15 and the SR-71.

11:38 There are at LEAST three places I can guarantee aren’t on that list because even he wasn’t dumb enough to attempt it… - B-hole - D-hole - Eye hole

11:32 Yeah, that would be would the end of the research for me.

I have seen these flat earthers who build a rocket to prove the earth is flat. The rocket could fly a few thousand feet in the air and call the press for this science experiment. What I don't get is they could buy a plane ticket and get 35,000 feet without the risk of, well you know, death!

the oyster makes sense to eat at first, as if you are foraging for food you would of course open any shell you found; however eggs are the things that make no sense to me

As a person from a raw oyster culture, I find it odd that eating raw oysters would be deemed strange.

I love a poison dart frug

It's curious to me that the bee sting to the nostril is so bad when nose piercings are common. I have one and it barely hurt. I believe him, but I wonder where in the nostril he was stung.

I am currently experimenting with beer.