A smoker from the age of 5, olympic running was an unlikely path for Louis Zamperini. Unfortunately, too was surviving a plane crash, 47 days at sea, and war camps, but these were real scenarios for Louis.

Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in the world, suffered from an overactive pituitary condition causing him to grow to 8 feet, 4 inches with a shoe size of 40.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, when black Americans boycotted for the equal rights granted them in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

After serving in WWII as a navigator for the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Edmund Hillary dedicated himself to mountaineering, including the yet unachieved crown jewel of mountain climbing—ascent of Mt. Everest.