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1.90. A man urinates and dies. (RA original)

1.90 answer: He urinated on the third rail in the New York subway, was
knocked onto the tracks by the shock, and was hit by a train and killed.
(Experts apparently disagree on whether he died from the electrical shock
before the train hit him.) This is a true story; the man was named Joseph
Patrick O’Malley, and Cecil Adams gives the story in The Straight
Dope
, quoting Where Death Delights by Marshall
Houta.

1.90 variant answer: The man was in a boat on the Amazon. A tiny fish
swam “upstream” into the man whereupon it inflated itself to balloon size,
killing him. (TK) (I don’t know whether fish that can swim up a urethra
actually exist or are an urban legend, but all my sources indicate they do
exist. The self-inflation may not be true, though. Also, the man might
have to be standing in the water (rather than in the boat) for the fish to
enter his body.)