The Darwin Awards, or 150 Bizarre True Stories of how Dumb Humans have met their Maker is named after the father of evolutionary theory.
The book started as a Web site to commemorate those people who have improved our gene pool by killing themselves in really stupid ways. These are people for whom warnings such as 'coffee is hot' and 'this superman cape does not enable the wearer to fly' were made. Probably better on the Internet than as a book.
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