This day in history: On this day in 2015, Ravi Subramanian, an Air India technician was sucked into an aircraft's jet engine and killed instantly.
No one has survived being sucked into a jet engine. There have been 33 reported cases of people being sucked into the engine of a 737-100/-200 airplane since 1969.
The risk of being sucked into an aircraft engine increases when the aircraft has lower ground clearance. This is because the turbofan creates an area of low pressure, which rapidly pulls in air close to the engine's intake.
If someone is sucked into an aircraft engine, they would be disintegrated into small red particles in seconds.
This Day in History: Erramatti Mangamma gave birth to twins on this day in 2019 at the age of 73, making her the world's oldest mother and the oldest mother to give birth to twins. The record for being the oldest mother in the world was previously held by Daljinder Kaur Gill, who gave birth to a baby boy at the age of 72.
Erramatti Mangamma married Sitarama Rajarao in 1962 in Andhra Pradesh, but the couple was reportedly unable to have children until Erramatti was impregnated using in-vitro fertilisation.
On the flip side, Lina Medina, a girl from Peru, gave birth to a boy by caesarean section in 1939 at the age of five.
This Day in History: An estimated five million mourners, more than one-eighth of the population of Egypt, flooded the streets of Cairo on this day in 1970 in order to witness the 15 mile long funeral procession for President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had died suddenly on Monday from a heart attack.
The funeral of C. N. Annadurai a year prior in India had 15 million attendees.
Perhaps the biggest funeral in France was for author Victor Hugo in 1885 where 2 to 3 million people attending.
Juan and Eva Peron had millions attend their respective funerals.
Some of the most-viewed (televised) funerals are those of Princess Diana (2.5 billion), Pope John Paul II (2 billion), Michael Jackson (3 billion), Muhammad Ali (1 billion). 41.5 million viewed JFK's funeral in 1963, which was impressive for the time.
This day in history: Alexander 'Sasha' Chechik sent his friend a photo of a grenade with a pin pulled out while chatting on the Russian social media service VK on this day in 2017. He died shortly after sending the photo as the grenade in his hand exploded. Police ruled the incident as an accident instead of a suicide.
Also, "two Russian soldiers in the Urals region west of Siberia were posing for a selfie with a live grenade. The handheld explosive detonated unexpectedly and, going off in their faces. Only the phone with the photo survived. Russia in particular has seen an alarming number of selfie-related deaths, becoming such a problem that the government launched a safety campaign, urging people to use caution while taking selfies." Source
A 2018 study of news reports showed that there were 259 selfie deaths in 137 incidents reported globally between October 2011 and November 2017, with the highest occurrences in India, followed by Russia, United States, and Pakistan. The mean age was 23 years old, with male deaths outnumbering female about three to one.
One such incident happened in North Carolina in April 2014 when a 32-year-old woman from North Carolina was driving and veered her vehicle across the center median. Her vehicle collided with a recycling truck, left the road, hit a tree, and burst into flames – moments after posting selfies online when she heard Pharrell Williams' song "Happy".
On January 21 2015, a man in Kalama, Washington, stepped out onto a railroad track to take a selfie with himself and a woman with a passing train in the background. The man misjudged which track the oncoming train was on and was struck and died at the scene.
On March 2015, Seven youths drowned while taking selfies on Mangrul Lake near Kuhi, about 12 miles from Nagpur, India. Their boat had tipped over as they were standing up to pose.
In 2015, a man was fatally struck by lightning at Brecon Beacons (UK) supposedly due to the selfie stick he had attracting the bolt.
On August 9, 2015, a man was gored to death in the annual bull-running festival in the town of Villaseca de la Sagra while trying to take a selfie with a bull.
On January 8, 2018, in Zagreb, Croatia, a 14-year-old boy climbed onto the roof of a train cargo wagon where he wanted to take a selfie. He was electrocuted and his body "burned like a torch." Firefighters were unable to take action until the train's power was turned off.
On July 25, 2017, a 30-year-old man sneaked into the Bannerghatta Biological Park near Bangalore, India, with friends to take selfies with an elephant that later trampled him to death.
On June 29, 2016, a 51-year-old German tourist visiting Machu Picchu in Peru, fell 130 feet to his death after he lost his footing while leaping into the air for a "flying selfie".
In 2016, a Chinese businessman, at a local wildlife park in the city of Rongcheng, Shandong province, was drowned by a walrus after taking several selfies and videos with the animal. A zookeeper was also drowned in the same incident after attempting to save the man.
