If you could have one superpower what would it be? I always flip flop between the ability to fly or being able to talk to animals.
But enough about me. What superpower would you choose? Super strength? What about something a little less traditional like being impervious to electricity or balls of steel? Go ahead. Not so easy, is it? These people are just a few of the many secretly special human beings that wander the streets every day. Who knows, maybe your barista is actually a human magnet?
Look carefully next time she picks up a spoon. Stephen Wiltshire can take one look at a city skyline and draw the entire thing accurately from memory. At one point, he took a short helicopter ride around Manhattan and recreated the island with graphite and paper with startling accuracy.
He remembers every window, turret, and happy little tree exactly and draws them all to scale. Wiltshire is a savant. His autism hinders parts of his brain while basically connecting his eyes to his hand by turning his recall and drawing abilities up to While most of us would be distracted by being hundreds of feet in the air — and, oh my god, what if the helicopter blades just stopped spinning? I can barely remember to feed myself. Boogie-woogie, woogie!
Xiangang has the unique ability to touch a live wire and come out unscathed. Why can he do this, and even more importantly why would he want to? Well, he found out about his ability accidentally, as people tend to in cases like this, when his TV went out one day and he thought he was qualified enough to jimmy around with the fuse box to see if he could fix the problem.
He says that electricity makes him feel energized, which, if you ask me, makes him sound more like a battery than a man. In , scientists discovered a gene mutation that makes a person need less sleep than the average human. The discovery opened the door to understanding human sleep patterns and disorders. Michel Lotito was known for his ability to eat non-digestable objects without any bad effects.
He was seen to consume glass, metal, rubber and other objects. Do not try this at home. Super Languag e Abilities:. The average person on earth is estimated to only be able to speak 1. Harold Williams , on the other hand was able to speak 58 different languages. He spent his life traveling the world going region by region learning all the languages he could. Veronica Seider holds the world record for being able to see the smallest object without assistance from technology.
In the University of Stuttgart, in then West Germany, reported that one of their students; Veronica Seider had a visual acuity 20 times better than average person. For example she could identify people at a distance of more than a mile away 1. Ben Underwood is an extraordinary person with the ability to see using Human Echolocation. Ben lost his eyes to cancer and is completely blind. However, using a series of clicking noises Ben is able to navigate the world around him.
Check out this awesome video about Ben transcending limitations and living a regular life. Now we have heard of people using meditation to ease the pains of child birth but Tim Cridland has decided to use his high tolerance for pain as a means of performance and entertainment. Many people with synesthesia also have chromesthesia , which enables them to see sound as color. Some superpowers can even be learned: Echolocation , for example, is the ability to sense where objects are in space by detecting how sound bounces off them.
Bats and dolphins have this ability, and so do humans. Ben Underwood learned echolocation to play football, basketball, skateboard and rollerblade, all without the use of his eyes. People can also learn to regulate their body temperature through a method called tummo meditation. Wim Hof, aka " The Iceman ," learned how and was able to climb Mount Everest wearing only shorts and shoes by employing tummo techniques to keep him warm.
So human beings are pretty cool! But here's the scary part: Where there are superheroes, there must also be supervillains. And many times, supervillains are organized.
Hail Hydra. A French entertainer called Michel Lotito wowed audiences in the 20th century with his ability to eat, well, pretty much anything. This included bicycles, televisions, shopping carts, and more. But his biggest stunt of all came in , when he successfully finished eating a Cessna plane — which took him two years. How was he able to do this? Well, scientists think he had a rare condition called pica, a psychological condition that meant he had an appetite for inanimate objects.
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