Cinematography has taught us to be superheroes, but you can also find them in real life. We are amazed at their incredible talents and next to them we feel our "inferiority".
Here are some of them…
Ice Man
Wim Hof is an unusual Dutch athlete known as the "Ice Man". He is able to withstand extremely cold temperatures, which he says is due to his unique breathing technique - a kind of controlled hyperventilation. In a study earlier this month, scientists hypothesized that using his unusual method, he manages to regulate body temperature.
No matter how he does it, he can really withstand extremely low temperatures. In 2011, he sat in an ice bath for 1 hour and 52 minutes. In 2009 in Finland, he ran a marathon at about -20 ° C, wearing only shorts. In shorts alone, he also climbed Mount Everest.
Rainbow woman
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The artist Concetta Antico is endowed with a peculiar gift - she can see more colors than other people. She is the so-called "tetrachromat".
This means that she has not three (which is the norm for humans), but four types of cones in the eye. Although the mutation is not uncommon, very little is known about those who have it.
For Antico, the color of the most ordinary pebble can sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow, because it can distinguish 99 million colors, and not just 1 million, like most of us.
Monsieur Eats-All
A French entertainer named Michel Lotito wowed audiences in the 20th century with his ability to eat almost anything: bicycles, televisions, supermarket carts and more. His greatest achievement dates back to 1980, when he successfully finished off a Cessna-150, which took him two years.
Scientists believe that he had a rare disease called picà, in which there is an irresistible desire to eat something little edible, or even completely inedible. Michel's stomach walls were twice as thick as those of an ordinary person, which apparently allowed him to avoid injury.
By some accounts, he had eaten 9 tons of metal - plus a coffin - by the time he passed away in 2007, due to natural causes unrelated to his unusual diet.
Super samurai
Isao Machii from Japan is an unusual martial artist. He wields a samurai sword. His reaction is so quick that he was able to cut through a plastic bullet fired at him from a pistol on the fly with his sword.
He is the holder of numerous Guinness records. So, for example, in three minutes he managed to chop with a sword 252 dense sheaves of straw, imitating enemy heads.
Super memory
The actress Marylou Henner, who starred in the TV series Taxi, has an unusual gift. Thanks to her super memory, she can remember almost every moment of her life in detail.
“I can hear the song on the radio in my car and immediately remember all the times when I still heard it,” says Marylou.
She appears to have a rare syndrome called hyperthymesia (neurological disorder or exceptional autobiographical memory).
Calculator man
Scott Flansberg makes calculations faster than a calculator.
In 2001 and 2003, he entered the Guinness Book of Records.
Sometimes he shows his extraordinary talent to the public, and he also helps young people develop a love for mathematics.
Phenomenal scent
Joy Milne from Perth, Scotland, "smells" Parkinson's. She once made a diagnosis earlier than the doctors. In tests conducted by the University of Edinburgh, she recognized Parkinson's disease in 11 out of 12 cases. Now scientists are trying to turn Milne's unique ability into Parkinson's disease diagnostics technology. If this succeeds, doctors will be able to begin treatment at the earliest stages, when the symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared.
Milne's husband died of Parkinson's disease in 2015. Before his death, she promised him that she would try to learn everything about her gift and use it to help people suffering from this disease.