Starving Time was a particularly gruesome era in early colonial America when ravenous Jamestown colonists exhumed corpses for sustenance.

The German guards on the outskirts of the city of Zwolle killed Léo Major's friend. Then he killed them — and liberated the entire city on his own.

Patrick Kearney's IQ was ridiculously high, but even he couldn't outsmart the law.

Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades.

Not only was William Adams the first Englishman to reach Japan, he became an adviser to the shogun and one of the first Westerners to become a samurai.

Ray Combs was a charismatic and likable, but even he couldn't take the pressure after being fired from his job.

When Jeffrey Dampier won the lottery, he thought he finally had it all. Little did he know that someone was about to take everything from him.

The Kaiten was not only a weapon of destruction but a symbol of the strength of the Japanese pilots' spirit.

Sada Abe loved Kichizo Ishida so much that even after murdering him, she kept his most prized "tool" as a keepsake.

According to one theory, Prince Albert Victor, the grandson of Queen Victoria, was responsible for the infamous Jack the Ripper slayings in Whitechapel.

In "Goodfellas," Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito is a complete psychopath. As it turns out, Tommy DeSimone was even crazier in real life.