Hugh Glass: the man who survived a grizzly attack crawled 300 miles through the wilderness to safety …
Robert Stroud “The Birdman of Alcatraz” – spent 54 years in prison where he became one of the best ornithologists in the world
In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history
The Paris Gun – The biggest gun of WWI. It was capable of firing a shell to a range of more than 70 miles
Soviet cosmonaut spent 10 months in space and when he came back to Earth the Soviet Union was dissolved