Really - a man named Dan Cooper, aka D.B. Cooper, pulled off one of the most amazing heists of the twentieth century. 

There is a character in Australian history who is still debated. Some call him a hero, a kind of Robin Hood. Others say he was just a cunning bandit. This man's name was Ned Kelly.

German Konrad Kujau has always felt out of place in his era. He was born in 1938, so he did not catch Hitler's rise to power, and the war was remembered by the fact that he lost his parents in the bombing of Dresden and ended up in an orphanage for 6 years. However, the Führer's fiery speeches on the radio and torchlight processions made a deep impression on little Konrad. In his youth, Kujau admired Hitler and wished he had been born earlier. He invented a false biography and always added a few years to his life, thus getting closer to his favorite era.

Bernie Madoff is an American financier who realized the largest financial pyramid scheme in history. For 40 years of work his company deceived about 3 million people, both very wealthy people and the middle class. The total amount of financial losses of defrauded depositors amounted to $64.8 billion. What is most surprising is that not a single member of Madoff's family knew about this scam.