We know that human possibilities are not unlimited, and in general it is so. But some people are born with abilities that go far beyond the ordinary: as if the human body decides to break down the barriers set by nature. The existence of people with superpowers is direct evidence that the human body has much greater capabilities than we can imagine. Who are they - the result of evolution or isolated cases of a natural anomaly?
15. Man Magnet - Lew Tou Lin
I try my best not to call him Magneto, after all, that movie villain, and Lew Tou Ling is a real person. But with an unrealistic ability to attract metal (and not only metal) objects to your body. It's as if some kind of force is holding them from the inside - despite the fact that each object can weigh up to 2 kg, and in total, a man-magnet is able to hold 36 kg on himself. Scientists from the Malaysian University of Technology have come to the conclusion that Tou Lin's skin has a kind of unique "grip" property, which helps objects "stick" to the body - as if under the influence of a magnetic field. The strangest thing is that this ability is inherited in Tou Lin's family, and his three grandchildren can boast of the same skill.
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14. Supernatural Memory - Daniel Tammet
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People with phenomenal math skills and powerful memory are not uncommon. They are able to solve complex mathematical equations faster than a computer or to reproduce in memory some event from ten years ago with an accuracy of a second. However, Daniel Tammet is the first to describe how his brain works.
For Daniel, each integer from 0 to 10,000 has its own image and distinctive characteristics such as texture, shape, color and feel. For example, the number 289 looks quite ugly, the number 333 is much more attractive, and the number pi is almost perfect. Daniel has Asperger Syndrome and his method allows him to memorize numbers and events with incredible accuracy. For example, he can reproduce the number Pi to 22,514 decimal places, which he did as a demonstration in 2004. It took 5 hours and 9 minutes.
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13. Eagle Eye - Veronica Seider
In the movies, we have seen more than once heroes that have "super vision" and are able to see even a fly that is a kilometer away. The famous shooters Eagle Eye and Legolas are just such. But in the real world such a person exists, and this is Veronica Seider - the world champion in looking at the smallest objects at long distances without using binoculars or any other optics. It has been proven to be able to distinguish between people who are 1.6 km away from it. Her eyesight is 20 times sharper than that of an ordinary person.
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12. Sonar Vision - Daniel Kish and Ben Underwood
Do you know how bats "see"? Echolocation: They make special sounds, and then their auditory system picks up the reflections of sounds from obstacles. Ben Underwood had the same ability: he used sounds to "see", despite having lost his sight due to retinoblastoma, an eye cancer. It is not clear how, but he was able to develop an extraordinary ability to echolocation. By making sharp clicks with his tongue, he "saw" objects so well that it seriously improved his quality of life. Sadly, Ben Underwood died in 2009 due to cancer recurrence. Ben was the brightest of Daniel Kish's students. Daniel is blind and also navigates the world using echolocation (this is called "sonar vision"). He does it so well that he helps other blind people by teaching them to "see" the world around the way he does.
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11. The Animal Whisperer - Kevin Richardson
Kevin is a South African behavioral zoologist who studies animal behavior. He understands them so well that he was literally accepted into their membership by several lion prides and some flocks of hyenas. He eats, sleeps and plays with these animals as if they were his family. When dealing with wild animals, Kevin trusts intuition more than book rules. He is known for treating lions as highly evolved creatures, showing them respect and relying on a sense of community and family, instead of harshly suppressing and training them.
But Kevin warns that his job is dangerous and advises no one to follow in his footsteps without proper preparation. He communicates and is friends only with animals that have grown before his eyes. And all the same, the animals scratched, bit and wounded him many times … although they never did this on purpose.
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10. The man who sees music - Arthur Lintgen
Some are unable to learn a second language, but the American physician Arthur Lintgen can read in the language of gramophone records: by the pattern of grooves and their color, he determines which piece of music is recorded there. But Arthur does not claim to be a superhero. He explains his skill with musical erudition and says that it applies only to classical music, starting from Beethoven and later. The earlier works, he said, are too similar in structure and difficult to recognize. And when they gave him the record on which the Alice Cooper album was recorded, Lintgen said that it looks like a messy jumble of sounds and looks like gibberish. However, Arthur Lintgen's ability is unique in its own way.
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9. Computer Man - Shakuntala Devi
Shakuntala Devi (1929 - 2013) is striking proof that the human brain is capable of extraordinary things like incredibly complex and fast arithmetic calculations. Once a professor at the University of Berkeley asked Shakuntala to calculate the cube root of 61 629 875 and the seventh root of the number 170 859 375. To the professor's surprise, Shakuntala gave the answers (395 and 15, respectively) in just a few seconds. In 1977, at the University of Dallas, in 50 seconds, she managed to extract the root of the 23rd degree from a number consisting of 201 characters! The university computer confirmed that the results were correct, but it took more than a minute to work.
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8. Photographic Memory - Stephen Wiltshire
If you haven't seen the work of this artist, then you should definitely do it. Stephen is an autistic artist who can reproduce from memory the most detailed landscape of any city that he happens to see from above. It only takes a short helicopter flight over the city - and using his photographic memory, Stephen will create a panoramic image of it with stunning accuracy.
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7. Ice Man - Wim Hof
While ordinary people trying to climb Everest or Kilimanjaro get their own warmth, Dutch daredevil Wim Hof does these tricks in shorts. The extremely cold-resistant Hof says that the tantric meditation technique "tummo" helps him to regulate body temperature, a method of developing inner warmth used by Tibetan yogis. Wim Hof is the undisputed world champion in bathing in a tub covered with ice cubes. An ordinary person cannot stay in such a bath for more than 15-20 minutes. Hof's record is almost two hours.
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6. Super Samurai - Isao Machii
The Japanese iaido martial art master has mastered the techniques of real samurai. He can predict the trajectory of an object with such frightening accuracy that he calmly cuts the object in half with his sword - and he can do it every second. He is the fastest man with a sword not only in Japan but in the whole world. Machii can cut plastic bullets flying at a speed of 300 km / h. It looks like he really is a superhero.
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5. Steel Jaws - Radhakrishnan Velu
It is impossible to imagine what kind of power a person should have, capable of dragging a train of several cars with his own teeth, as does Radhakrishnan Velu, a native of Malaysia. For such strong teeth he is called the "Dental King". And still it is not clear - how can you drag a train weighing 260.8 tons over a distance of 4.2 meters, excuse me, with your teeth? The tooth king claims that when he was 14, an Indian guru taught him to use his teeth to control all parts of the body.
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4. The Man Who Never Sleeps - Thai Ngoc
Ever tried to stay awake for more than 48 hours? Unpleasant experience. Even one sleepless night has a very bad effect on the well-being of an ordinary person, but with the Vietnamese peasant Thay Ngoc, everything is different. He hasn't slept since 1973. He himself believes that the reason for the insomnia was the fever he suffered then. All these years, this person has been trying to sleep - with the help of drugs and even alcohol, but to no avail. Surprisingly, doctors do not find any abnormalities or serious illnesses in him and say that everything is in order with his health.
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3. Super Endurance - Dean Karnazes
There is the endurance of the common man and there is the endurance of the American Dean Karnazes. Dean is a long distance runner, super marathon runner. And if he is timely fed and given water, he can run endlessly, literally until his retirement. In other words, his stamina level is so high and his energy is replenished so quickly that he can keep running. Among his achievements are, for example, running on a treadmill for 80 hours (560 km) and 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days.
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2. Steel stomach - Michelle Lotito
The Frenchman Michel Lotito (1950 - 2007) had an insatiable appetite for completely inedible items. It is clear that with such abilities there is a direct road to pop artists. At his performances, "Monsieur Eat All" absorbed objects made of metal, glass, rubber and plastic, and even indigestion did not torment him afterwards. He is also known for dismantling and gradually eating (over the course of two years) an entire plane. Lotito's stomach walls were twice as thick as they should be, and his gastric juice also worked unusually hard and allowed him to digest everything.
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1. Electric Man - Raj Mohan Nair
Electricity is dangerous - everyone knows that. An electric shock as strong as one tenth of an ampere can be fatal … but not for Raj Mohan Nair. A current of up to 10 amperes can be passed through his body and this will not cause him any harm. The only side effect is momentary blinding. The story of how Raj Mohan discovered his superpower is tragic. When he was 7 years old, his mother died. Unable to cope with his grief, the boy tried to commit suicide by climbing a power line and grabbing a bare wire. To his surprise, he survived and realized that he had an extraordinary ability. His body's resistance to electric current is 10 times higher than that of an ordinary person. Therefore, he can take bare wires in his hands and pretend to be an electrical circuit.