In 1923, Bobby the wonder dog tracked 2,500 miles across the United States to reunite with his owners after he got lost in Indiana during a family road trip.

Violet Jessop was a ship nurse on the Britannic, the Olympic, and the Titanic. While on board the Olympic, it collided with a warship and nearly sank. While on the Titanic, it hit an iceberg and sank, and the Britannic hit an underwater mine and sank, yet Violet survived all three disasters.

Sam Griner from the “Successful Kid” memes used his success to start a GoFundMe page, which raised nearly $100,000 for his dad’s kidney transplant.

Mathematician Paul Erdos could calculate in his head, given a person’s age, how many seconds they had lived when he was four.

In 2001, the uncle of a boy named Jessie Arbogast wrestled a seven-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving Jessie, the uncle dove back in, seized the shark, and wrestled it to shore, where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital, and successfully sewn back on.

Roger Frisch, a concert violinist, was awake when he had brain surgery to get rid of his tremors. His surgeons got a private concert during the surgery as Frisch played the violin while the doctors worked on his brain.

In 2014, a stray dog named Arthur followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungle to complete a 427 mile race, just because one of them had given it a meatball during one of the earlier halts.