All of us at least once wanted to have superpower, but the reality is that nature was greedy for superpowers for its children. Supermen are supermen, to please us with their appearance on the screen, but not in life. However, there are exceptions to any rule - people who know what others cannot do live with us on the same planet.
Ma Qiangan is immune to electric shock
Qiangan has a rare ability: he can safely touch the wires with his bare hands, without experiencing any discomfort. He discovered his abilities quite by accident: once his TV broke down, and Ma, starting to click the fuse, accidentally touched a bare wire.
As a rule, such "accidents" end in death, but Qiangan did not feel anything at all. Moreover, instead of thanking fate, he decided to try it again and touched the wire again - now on purpose. Again, nothing. By testing his abilities, Ma found that he could touch wires with voltages of several hundred volts without feeling pain. He himself says that this only energizes him.
A person's response to current depends on several factors, including the person's weight, the moisture in his palms, and the characteristics of the chemical composition of the blood. Scientists who studied Ma concluded that he was seven to eight times less susceptible to current than the rest of us. However, what explains this, the researchers cannot yet say.
Dean Karnazes can run as long as he wants
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The American runner has shown real miracles of endurance by running a marathon in each of 50 states in 50 days. Karnazes' track record also includes two marathons on each continent and a 560-kilometer non-stop race, which took the athlete three days.
Back in 2007, Karnazes attempted to run from New York to San Francisco, but in St. Louis he was forced to make a stop - Karnazes was disappointed. Yes, he is such a person - a run of 2.6 thousand kilometers disappointed him. True, three years later, the runner nevertheless pulled himself together and finished off this distance, spending 75 days.
Otherwise, you cannot call Karnazes' well-oiled machine. After his marathon across the US, doctors measured the runner's serum creatine phosphokinase levels. CPK shows the amount of muscle damage caused by physical activity. So, if an ordinary athlete has a CPK level of 2400, then Karnazes has only 447. In addition, it turned out that there is more blood in the runner's circulatory system than it should be, which helps him to avoid dehydration. And finally: through some calculations, the researchers found that theoretically, keeping the speed of 160 meters per minute, Karnazes can run forever.
Stephen Wiltshire has a perfect visual memory
As soon as Wiltshire looks at the city, he can easily draw it from memory. And the drawing will be an exact copy of the original: Stephen will arrange all the buildings in their places without confusing the location of arches, windows and flower pots. Stephen has been drawing for as long as he can remember. Even his first words were “paper” and “brush”. Wiltshire loves to travel around the world and then reproduce what he saw on paper. On one of his recent trips, he flew by helicopter over New York, after which he recreated a picture of the city from memory.
Stephen's secret is that he is autistic. Autism interferes with individual areas of the brain "communicating" with each other, but in return gives its owner other abilities. Therefore, Wiltshire, observing the panorama of the city, is not distracted by questions like "Oh, is this a corpse in the river?" - he only focuses on details.
Kim Peak remembers all the books he read
At the time of his death in 2009, Kim boasted that he remembered the contents of all 12 thousand books he had read. In addition, he could read two pages at once - one for each eye. Many considered Peak to be autistic, just like Wiltshire, but this is not so: Peak's incredible abilities are due to a congenital visual defect, which led to an increase in memory. Without exaggeration, he knew absolutely everything about his hometown: what roads lead to it, what TV channels show, who is engaged in telephone repair, where are all post offices and stuff like that.
Wim Hof is not afraid of the cold
The Dutchman proved to the whole world that he doesn’t care about frost by swimming in icy water and allowing himself to be “buried” in the snow. Yes, David Blaine has the same tricks in his arsenal, but unlike him, Hof can, for example, conquer Everest in only shorts - and then more for the sake of maintaining decency than out of necessity. Hof himself says that meditation helps him not to feel the cold, and it seems that this is really so: the doctors who examined the Dutchman claim that he can independently control the activity of his autonomic nervous system and control his immune system. Hof's case is unique, scientists emphasize, but on his example it will be possible to try to find out what to do if a person is accidentally exposed to radiation.
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