Nazi war criminal Ernst Kaltenbrunner was caught by the Allies because his mistress saw him by chance, called out his name and ran to hug him
At the Nuremberg trials several Nazi leaders achieved genius-level scores on an IQ test. Highest result was 143!
The legend of Hugh Glass: the man who survived a grizzly attack crawled 300 miles through the wilderness to safety
The Gulag system of the Soviet Union was so harsh that one prisoner cut his hand off with an axe in order to get into the hospital to relax for at least a couple of days.