Humans with Superpowers
Written by Sneh Chaudhry on August 13, 2024
Superpowers are real. Okay, maybe humans can’t sprout giant claws like the X-Men’s Wolverine or shoot energy beams from their eyes like Cyclops—but our bodies and brains hold the potential for many seemingly superhuman feats, scientists say.
Sometimes superpowers arise through genetic mutations, a bit like the origin stories in the comics. The Sherpa people of the Himalayas, for instance, have adapted to high altitude with genes that supercharge their strength and endurance.
Wim Hof, The Iceman
Wim Hof is a resident of the Netherlands and has also been named The Iceman because he does not feel cold even in the snow. He holds world records for climbing Mount Everest in shorts, running a marathon in snow for 2 hours barefoot and swimming in icy water for the longest time.
Velu Rathakrishnan
When we talk about strong teeth, we can only imagine breaking as many walnuts as possible with teeth, but on October 18, 2003, Velu Rathakrishnan of Malaysia pulled a 260.8 tonne heavy train with his teeth to a distance of 13 feet 9 inches.
Ben Underwood
Ben Underwood of California, who was diagnosed with Retinal Cancer at the age of just 2, due to which he lost his eyesight. But within a few years, he made himself such that he could accurately detect things around him by making sounds with his tongue. This skill is called Echolocation and Ben had become so adept at it that he could do running, cycling, playing football and basketball like normal people. According to Ben’s doctor, Ben had become the world’s best echolocator.
Daniel Browning Smith
Daniel is considered the most flexible person in the world. Daniel can bend his body in any way, that is why he has also been named The Rubberboy. Doctors believe that Daniel has got this flexibility due to Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome.
Stephen Wiltshire
The amazing art inside London’s Stephen Wiltshire is his memory and his painting, because whatever he sees once, he can make its exact painting later. An example of this is that once he flew in a helicopter over the city of London for 20 minutes and later he made an absolutely accurate painting of the city of London.
Liam Hoekstra
Liam Hoekstra of Michigan is called the strongest child in the world. Liam could do pullups and pushups when he was 8 months old. By the time he was 3 years old, Liam could do exercises with dumbbells and he had six pack abs and he could lift heavy objects easily, that is why Liam was also named Mini Hulk. Later, after the doctors checked Liam’s body, it was found that Liam has myostatin muscle hypertrophy due to which the affected person gets very less fat in his body and starts getting 40% more muscle than a person of the same age, which also increases strength in his body.
Michel Lotito
Michel Lotito of France is the only person in the world who could eat indigestible food like rubber, glass, stone and iron. According to doctors, Lotito had a rare disease called Pica, due to which his intestines were very large, through which any food could easily reach the stomach and due to the disease, his digestive juice had become very strong so that he could digest any food. Could. Lotito used mineral oil to swallow metals and his biggest achievement was eating a Cessna 150 plane whole and it took him 2 years to eat it.
Prahlad Jani
Prahlad Jani was a sage born in Gujarat and a great devotee of Amba Devi. Prahlad Jani came into limelight when he claimed that he had neither eaten nor drunk anything for 70 years and he was able to do this miracle by the grace of Amba Devi. To find out the truth of his claim, in 2003 Dr. Sudhir and some assistant doctors took the test of Prahlad Jani at Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad in which he was locked in a room under CCTV surveillance for 10 days, where he was not given anything to eat and water was given only for bathing, but the surprising thing was that after completion of 10 days, when his medical test was taken, he was completely healthy, after this in 2010, His test was taken again and again and he passed again. In 2006, Discovery also made a documentary on Prahlad Jani named The Boy with Divine Powers.