Amazing Human Endurance Feats: Johanna Quaas’ Ageless Athleticism Source: Super Illu At 86 years old, Johanna Quaas is the oldest recorded gymnast in the world. She began her training at an early age in Germany and won her first competition in 1934. A handful of decades later, the octogenarian gymnast still practices the same routines she performed in her youth and, even more remarkably, is still winning trophies for it. After becoming a viral internet sensation in 2012, her carpe diem approach to life has inspired others across the world to challenge many of the norms associated with human strength and endurance.

PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty ImagesBowie performs on stage at the Auteuil’s Hippodrome in Paris, on June 9, 1983. In addition to the Maddox story, in 1987, a woman named Wanda Nichols filed a lawsuit against David Bowie claiming that he had raped her — and potentially exposed her to HIV/AIDS. Nichols told police that she was with Bowie at a party at his hotel following an October 8 concert in Dallas. The following morning, she said the singer suddenly assaulted her in his hotel room, biting her back then telling her he had just given her AIDS.

Jacob Coxey's Army of 500 unemployed citizens marched on Washington D.C. to protest a crippling 1894 depression. Though they failed, they set a national precedent that lasts to this day.We don’t generally think of the unemployed as a political force in America. But there have been a number of unemployed marches that evolved into substantial movements comprised of tens of thousands of people. One such protest, now known as Coxey’s Army for the men who marched behind businessman Jacob Coxey onto the Capitol, marked the first time that any collective body of people marched on Washington.

Between 1977 and 1983, at least 17 Japanese nationals were abducted by North Korean spies, though Japan claims it is likely that hundreds more were taken.Ministry of Foreign Affairs JapanFamilies of abductees formed the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, pictured here. On the evening of Nov. 15, 1977, 13-year-old Megumi Yokota was walking home with friends from badminton practice in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The walk from the badminton court to her front door took only seven minutes, and Megumi was a punctual girl.

The Knights Templar was a Catholic military order formed during the Crusades — and some believe the group found the legendary Holy Grail while in Jerusalem.Walker Art Library / Alamy Stock PhotoThe Knights Templar existed for hundreds of years before its terrible fall — though some believe the group never went away. When the influential French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux sat down to write about the Knights Templar around 1136, he described the members of the order as “fearless knight[s]” protected by the armor of “faith” and “steel.