In 1979, a woman who jumped from the Empire State Building was blown back inside by a sudden gust of wind.

"I was in a beauty contest once," comedian Phyllis Diller recalled. "I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality."

After Donald Trump shut his blog down in June 2021, The Washington Post found that it was attracting fewer visitors than the pet-adoption service Petfinder and the recipe site Delish.

Bob Dylan traded one of Andy Warhol's Elvis Presley paintings for a sofa. He later agreed it was "a stupid thing to do."

In mid-2020, Doug Collins (R-Georgia) went on a "Trump Defender Statewide Tour" in a Chevy Suburban "that runs on liberal tears." In October, it stopped running.

The young Beatles lost several talent contests to "an old lady who could play the spoons."

Golfer John Daly shot a 67 in the first round of a PGA Championship after skipping practice to spend time in a casino. Tiger Woods, the favorite, shot a 71.

After 8 months running a pizza joint with his brother Tom, Jim Monaghan quit, trading 1/2 of the business for the delivery car: a beat-up '59 VW Beetle. 20 years later, the company, Domino's Pizza, had 200 stores.

At the Monte Carlo Casino in 1913, the Gambler's Fallacy cost roulette players a fortune when they kept betting on red, expecting it to hit after a long run of black. Red did hit eventually, after the wheel stopped on black 26 times in a row.

In 2015, a Chinese man, worried about his unemployed son's gaming addiction hired an online hitman to kill his avatar.