From the 1960s through the 1990s, Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel won the lottery 14 times. Here's how he did it.

Jadav Payeng would not sit idly by while his island home flooded and washed away. He started to plant trees. He has since created a 1,000-acre forest home to snakes, monkeys, and elephants alike.

An unstable schizophrenic, Eduard would spend three decades in an asylum and was to his father Albert an "insoluble problem."

Over the course of 100 days in 1994, the Rwandan Genocide of Hutus against Tutsis claimed the lives of some 800,000 people — while the world sat by and watched.

Victorian adventurer Richard Francis Burton was a poet, soldier, spy, and explorer — but that's not even the half of it.

The steps to the Lindy Hop didn't actually include any hopping, but they did jumpstart a fantastical dance craze throughout the Jazz era.

With her insatiable fighting spirit, Kathleen Cleaver went from being a bookish child to a front-lines protestor with the Black Panthers.

The daughter of a cartel leader, Sandra Ávila Beltrán grew up surrounded by piles of cash — and never looked back.

"If I don't get back on my board," Bethany Hamilton said after the attack, "I'll be in a bad mood forever."

After starting out as a Wall Street broker and suffragist, Victoria Woodhull made history in 1872 when she made a presidential run unlike anything the country had ever seen.

Although Frances Perkins was the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history and the principal architect of the New Deal, her story remains widely overlooked to this day.