Taken in 1964, the then-baby faced Beatles took some time to teach iconic talk show host Ed Sullivan how to strum a few chords while on the show. The next Paul McCartney? Doubtful.

The ways people die are often conventional, however, history provides us with a multitude of recorded deaths that are markedly more interesting:

Chrysippus was a Greek philosopher who devoted his life to important matters including ethics, mathematics, physics, epistemology and religion. Despite being a great thinker, even he would not have been able to imagine his demise. After feeding a donkey some wine and watching it eat figs from a tree, Chrysippus found the visual so funny that he actually died from laughing too much.

During a 1998 soccer match in Congo, a lightning strike was responsible for the deaths of the members of an entire soccer team. At a tied game of 1-1 when the lightning struck, the game was soon tragically over for the 11-member Bena Tshadi team. While the lightning also burned 31 other people on and around the field, the home team was left physically unharmed–albeit accused of witchcraft.

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Popularly described as “a day that will live in infamy”, the infamous attack on a U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 resulted in the deaths of 2,402 people and marked the United States entry into World War Two. Over 300 Japanese planes bombed the area, damaging or destroying eight Navy ships, three cruisers, an anti-aircraft training ship, minelayer, 188 US aircrafts alongside various power stations as well as fuel and torpedo storage facilities. Aside from the thousands who died, 1,282 people were wounded. Today, a memorial stands at the site of the most famous shipwreck – the US Arizona – where visitors can view the wreckage from a glass floor building.

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Formed by cult leader Jim Jones, the tragic November 18, 1978 mass suicide resulted in the deaths over 900 individuals.