In 1960 a new FDA doctor refused to approve thalidomide for 18 months under heavy pressure. The true story of Frances Kelsey and what her no changed.
In 2010, 33 miners were trapped 700 metres underground in Chile. Their shift foreman Luis Urzรบa made 48 hours of food last 17 days with one rule: everyone gets the same.
Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and hid their real names in glass jars so they could one day be given back. Her documented story.
His grandfather told the same stories hundreds of times and nobody wrote them down. That is why Tale of Life exists: a free way to save your grandparents’ stories, one question at a time.
On her 63rd birthday in 1901, widowed teacher Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
Desmond Doss refused to carry a weapon. On Hacksaw Ridge in 1945 he stayed alone under fire and lowered about 75 wounded men to safety.
In 1983, five American nuclear missiles appeared on Stanislav Petrov’s screen. Protocol said report it. He didn’t. He was right.
With only a hammer and a chisel, Dashrath Manjhi spent 22 years cutting a road through a mountain in Bihar, India. This is his true story.
