Most Unbelievable Feats Of Humans
1. Torture king
Tim Cridland (known by his stage name as Zamora the Torture King) is an American sideshow performer who performs extremely painful feats as entertainment. His stunts include fire eating, sword swallowing, body skewering, and even electrocution.
2. Metal eater
Known as Monsieur Mangetout , Michel Lotito was a French entertainer, famous for deliberately consuming indigestible objects. His performances involved consumption of metal, glass, rubber, and other materials. He disassembled, cut up, and consumed bicycles, shopping carts, televisions and even a plane Cessna 150. It is estimated that between 1959 and 1997, Lotito had eaten nearly nine tons of metal.
3. Rubberboy
Known as the Rubberboy, Daniel Browning Smith is an American contortionist, actor, television host, comedian, sports entertainer, and stuntman, who holds the title of the most flexible person in history. During one of his feats, he dislocated his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racket.
4. Super mathematician
Daniel Tammet is an English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. In his mind, Tammet says, each positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, color, texture and feel. He holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes. Tammet also speaks ten languages.
5. Catching cannon balls with bare hands
Also called the Cannonball King, John Holtum, a Danish stuntman, could catch 23 kilogram (50 pound) cannonballs fired at him by his assistant. Unfortunately, Holtum s initial attempt to catch a ball resulted in his losing three fingers.
6. Mountaineer in shorts
In 2009, Wim Hof (the same man who holds the record for the longest ice bath) climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters or 19,341 feet above sea level) wearing just shorts. Two years earlier, he climbed to an altitude of 6.7 kilometers (22,000 feet) on Mount Everest also wearing nothing but shorts and shoes, but failed to reach the summit due to a recurring foot injury.
7. Deepest free dive
Nicknamed the Deepest Man On Earth, Herbert Nitsch, an Austrian free diver, has held world records in all of the 8 free diving disciplines. The current free diving world record champion, he has achieved 69 official World Records, usually surpassing his own previous records. His latest record dates back to June 2012 when he dived to the depth of 253.2 meters (831 feet).
8. Survival of the highest fall without a parachute
Vesna Vulovic is a Serbian former flight attendant who holds the distinction of being the world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (33,333 ft). Vulovic fell out of a plane that exploded. She suffered multiple fractures, and she was in a coma for 27 days but after that, she fully recovered from her injuries and even continued to fly.
9. Buried alive for ten days
In 2004, Czech fakir and magician Zdenek Zahradka spent ten days buried alive in a wooden coffin. He was without food and water during the feat, and he could only breathe through a ventilation pipe. Zahradka spent most of this crazy experiment sleeping and meditating about his life.
10. Aircraft pulled by a man
Kevin Fast from Canada pulled a CC 177 Globemaster III, a large military transport aircraft weighing 188.83 tons (416,299 pounds), a distance of 8.8 meters (28 feet, 10.46 inches) at Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, on 17 September 2009.
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