11Leo Grand
A homeless man named Leo Grand was offered $100 or the chance to learn how to code by a stranger. He chose how to code and released an app.
12Puppies
A Chinese man bought and raised two puppies, whom he cared for despite their frequent killing and eating of his chickens. He later discovered that they were bears.
13Gilberto Chito Shedden
A local fisherman in Costa Rica named Gilberto “Chito” Shedden nursed a crocodile back to health after it had been shot in the head, and released the reptile back to its home. The next day, the man discovered “Pocho” had followed him home and was sleeping on the man's porch. For 20 years, Pocho became part of the man's family.
14Werner Forssmann
Werner Forssmann was the first man to perform cardiac catheterization. He did it on himself then walked downstairs to the radiology department to take the x-ray to prove you would not die. He was fired, became a Nazi and then won the Nobel Prize.
15Dean Karnazes
A man named Dean Karnazes has a physiological advantage in that he doesn't seem to have a lactate threshold and thus he was able to run 350 miles in under 81 hours without sleep.
16Noisy dogs
In 2010, a man named Andrew Nicklin from the West Midlands, UK was arrested for recording his neighbor’s noisy dogs and playing the noise back at his neighbor.
17Aitabdel Salem
In 2016, a New York man named Aitabdel Salem spent 5 months in prison because he didn't know his bail was only $2.
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18Ludger Sylbaris
On May 7, 1902, a man named Ludger Sylbaris was thrown into solitary confinement after a bar brawl in the town of Saint-Pierre which is located on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean Islands. The very next day, the biggest volcanic eruption of the 20th century destroyed the whole island, but he was one of only three known survivors of the event because his cell was bombproof and poorly ventilated. The cell in which he survived still stands today.
19Kevin Hines
A man named Kevin Hines survived a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge but broke his back on impact. He was saved from drowning by a sea lion who kept him afloat until rescuers could reach him.
20Michael Fiola
A man named Michael Fiola almost went to jail for child porn on his work-issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.
