Along with her husband, Lucinda Southworth donated $15 million to help fight the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

Jacques Piccard stood behind his work, so much so that he took a seven-mile dive into the ocean in it.

Who knew Benihana was the product of a samurai ancestor, and a restaurant-savvy father?

Inside Club 33, visitors can sit at opulent tables from classic movie sets and drink the park's only craft cocktails – all for a hefty price.

After several attempts to instigate policies with parliament, Irish writer Jonathan Swift channeled his ire into A Modest Proposal, a satirical pamphlet that posited child-eating as the only viable solution to the country's famine.

If there's one thing that can be said about the general, it was that he sure was confident.

The mimic octopus is one of the smartest and most adaptable creatures in the ocean.

The most famous ghost at the Hotel del Coronado in California is Kate Morgan, a 24-year-old who died by suicide on the hotel grounds in 1892.

Dale Cregan's story sounds like Hollywood had a field day with serial killer stereotypes – revenge, family feuds, murdered police officers, and a one-eyed suspect – but the horrifying crimes he committed were very real.

As an author, Karen Blixen was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in literature.