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Michel Lotito (June 15, 1950 - June 25, 2007[citation needed]) was a French entertainer, born in Grenoble, famous for deliberately consuming indigestible objects. He came to be known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mister Eats All").
His performances involved the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and other materials. He disassembled, cut-up, and consumed bicycles, shopping carts, televisions, a Cessna 150, and other items. The Cessna 150 took roughly two years to be "eaten", from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material as a teenager around 16 years of age and performed publicly from 1966.
Lotito claimed not to suffer ill effects from consuming the materials, even after consuming materials usually considered poisonous. When performing, he consumed around 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the meal. He said, however, that bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him sick. It is estimated that between 1959 and 1997, Lotito "had eaten nearly nine tons of metal."
Lotito died of natural causes on June 25, 2007, ten days after his 57th birthday. He is buried at Grenoble Cemetery.
Lotito's method for eating all of this metal was to break it into small pieces before attempting to eat it. He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits. This acted as a lubricant to help the metal slide down his throat. He also had no problem "passing" his unusual diet
List of items consumed
Item Count
Bicycle 18
Shopping cart 15
Television 7
Chandelier 6
Bed 2
Skis (pair) 1
Cessna aircraft 1
Coffin 1
A steel chain 400 m
Masutatsu Oyama (大山 倍達 Ōyama Masutatsu?, July 27th, 1923 – April 26, 1994), more commonly known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate. He was born Choi Yeong-eui (Hangul: 최영의 Hanja: 崔永宜). A Zainichi Korean, he spent most of his life living in Japan and acquired Japanese citizenship in 1964. He is an alumnus of Waseda University in Japan.
Early life
Oyama was born as Choi Young-Eui (최영의) in Gimje, South Korea, during Japanese occupation. At a young age he was sent to Northeast China to live on his sister's farm. Oyama began studying Chinese martial arts at age 9 from a Chinese farmer who was working on the farm. His family name was Li and Oyama said he was his very first teacher. The story of the young Oyama's life is written in his earlier books.
In March 1938, Oyama left for Japan following his brother who enrolled in the Yamanashi Aviation School Imperial Japanese Army aviation school. Sometime during his time in Japan, the Choi Young-Eui chose his Japanese name, Oyama Masutatsu (大山 倍達), which is a transliteration of 'Baedal' (倍達). 'Baedal' was an ancient Korean kingdom known in Japan during Oyama's time as "Ancient Joseon". Oyama was inspired to go to Japan by General Kanji Ishihara who was against the invasion of Asian neighbors (as a consequence, he was ostracized by higher ranks of the Japanese Army), to carve out his future in the heart of the Empire of Japan.
One story of Oyama's youth involves when Lee gave young Oyama a seed which he was to plant; when it sprouted, he was to jump over it one hundred times every day. As the seed grew and became a plant, Oyama later said, "I was able to jump between walls back and forth easily." The writer, Ikki Kajiwara and the publisher of the comics based the story on the life experience Oyama spoke to them about- thus the title became "Karate Baka Ichidai" (Karate Fanatic).
In 1963, Oyama wrote "What is Karate" which became a best seller in the US and sold million copies all over the world. It is still considered the "Bible of Karate" to this day. It was translated into Hungarian, French and English.
Scott Flansburg is The Human Calculator.
Bestselling author, Scott Flansburg, has been teaching math and entertaining people with his astonishing math skills for more than 20 years. Nicknamed, the Human Calculator, he currently holds the Guinness World Record for adding the same number to itself more times in 15 seconds than a person can do using a calculator. This remarkable ability is what earned him the title of “Fastest Human Calculator.”
Throughout Scott’s travels Scott proves his capacity to perform high-speed addition, subtraction, multiplication, square roots and even cube roots. More important than showing others the skills that he has acquired, he wants to show others that they already have the ability to perform seemingly difficult math problems without a calculator. Using Scott’s nontraditional tactics, he has learned that any student or professional who needs to use math in their daily life is only hindered by the calculator instead merely using their brain.
In Scott’s appearances, he is given a number and immediately begins adding the number to itself while saying each answer out loud. He does this while racing against an arsenal of professionals using calculators. As Scott stated, “the only thing that hinders me from adding the number faster is that I can’t speak as fast as I can think of the right answer.”
Explore this site to find out how Scott’s methods can help turn the calculator ON in YOUR mind.
Ma Xiangang held two electric wires in his hands and easily lit a bulb.
He can light a bulb with his hand. He can control electrical currents. He is a man who isn't afraid of direct contact with electricity.
Ma Xiangang, an ordinary man living in Daqing, a city in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, has a strange gift of being able to touch electricity without being shocked. He can touch 220-volt electric wires without any protection and appear as if it is nothing.
On a recent TV program, Ma held two electric wires in his hands and easily lit a bulb.
Ma learned about his gift 15 years ago. One day, while watching TV with his wife, the television suddenly went out. Ma checked it and found a wire outside had been broken by the wind. Ma picked up the broken wire. He first touched the ends tentatively. He felt no electricity, so he connected the two broken ends together.
After he fixed the broken line, Ma suddenly realized it was not normal. The wire carried electricity, but he fixed it with his bare hands.
"Why am I not affected by electricity?" Ma asked himself.
He decided to try again and finally learned direct contact with electricity does not harm him. Instead, it makes him energetic.
Gradually, Ma became addicted to touching electricity and learned to control the voltage passing through his body. Ma can now use his specialty to conduct electrotherapy and massage for others.
Ma's special powers have also drawn the attention of experts. After careful analysis, experts believe the secret lies in Ma's hands. The skin of his hands is much rougher and drier than others, functioning like a pair of insulated gloves. His tough skin prevents most of the electricity from entering Ma's body. The actual current passing through Ma's body only contains six milliamperes, while the safety limits for ordinary people is 8-10 milliamperes.
However, experts also remind Ma to be careful, for they are not sure whether the electricity will do any harm to him in the future.
Wim Hof (born 20 April 1959, in Sittard, Limburg) is a Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil, commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold.
Hof holds twenty world records including a world record for longest ice bath. He broke his previous world record by staying immersed in ice for 1 hour, 13 minutes and 48 seconds at Guinness World Records 2008. The night before, he performed the feat on the Today Show.
Wim describes his ability to withstand extreme cold temperatures as being able to "turn his own thermostat up" by using his mind.
In February 2009 Hof reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts within two days.
In 2007 he attempted, but failed (due to a foot injury), to climb Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts. Hof has been criticized for his stated justifications for this attempt: "Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human achievement; my climb of Mount Everest in my shorts will be a monument to the frivolous, decadent nature of modern society."
In 2009 Hof completed a full marathon (42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi)), above the polar circle in Finland, in temperatures close to −20 °C (−4 °F). Dressed in nothing but shorts, Hof finished in 5 hours and 25 minutes. The challenge was filmed by Firecrackerfilms, who make productions for BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic.
Hof again broke the ice endurance record in 2010 by standing fully immersed in ice for 1 hour and 44 minutes in Tokyo, Japan.
In 2011 Hof broke the ice endurance record twice, in Inzell in February and in New York in November. The Guinness World Record is now set for 1 hour and 52 minutes and 42 seconds by Hof. On 18 April, Hof got the test results regarding the "The influence of concentration/meditation on autonomic nervous system activity and the innate immune response" case study, demonstrating that he is able to directly influence his own Autonomic Nervous System and Immune System. Hof seems to be able to raise his cortisol levels and lower the amount of cytokines (flammatory bodies) just by using his meditation techniques. A different study on Hof while immersed in ice showed that Hof suppressed the cytokines by 100 percent. In September 2011, Hof also ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water. The run was performed under the supervision of Dr. Thijs Eijsvogels.
Isao Machii (町井勲 Machii Isao?, born August 20, 1973) is a Japanese Iaido master (Shūshinryū Iaijutsu hyōhō, Shūshin-kan head master) in Kawanishi, Hyōgo, Japan.
He holds a number of Guinness World Records for his sword skills, including "Most martial arts sword cuts to one mat (suegiri)", "Fastest 1,000 martial arts sword cuts", "Most sword cuts to straw mats in three minutes", and "Fastest tennis ball (708 km/h) cut by sword"
Dave Mullins
is a New Zealand freediver and world record-holder.
On 21 September 2007 Dave set a new world record in Dynamic apnea breaking the old record by 1 m, creating a new world record of 226 m in a time of 3:38. The old record of 225 m was held by Stig Severinsen. On 23 September 2007 Dave broke his own record by 18 m setting a new world record of 244 m in a time of 4:02.
In August 2008 Dave equalled the world record for Dynamic No Fins, which he hold until September 2010 jointly with Tom Sietas of Germany at 213m. Then, on Monday 27 September 2010 Mullins executed a clean DNF swim of 218 meters on a single breath to stake his claim as the sole world record holder. Dave's record-setting 218m DNF dive took 4 minutes and 11 seconds. Dave also holds the New Zealand national record in this discipline at 232m (it's his personal best, though not registered as a world record).
On 10 September 2008 during the Sharm 2008 Freediving World championships, Dave once again broke his own Dynamic world record and set the new WR at 248m. This has since been surpassed by Alexey Molchanov of Russia, who held the record at 250m. Mullins surpassed this with a 265 meter swim while holding his breath for 4:01 on 25 September 2010.
Dave has also set the New Zealand record in the Constant Weight discipline, diving to 108m in April 2008 at the Vertical Blue Invitational, Long Island, Bahamas.
Laurence Kim Peek
(November 11, 1951 – December 19, 2009) was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man. Unlike Babbitt, who had autism, Peek probably also had FG syndrome
Ben Underwood.. The Bat Man
Ben was born in Riverside California on January 26th 1992, and a very healthy baby indeed. He never spent any time at the hospital or doctors office, except for baby shots and oh how we all know what that's like. I'm not able to remember the exact dates, but sometime in February of 1992 I noticed that his right eye had a peculiar glow. His eye looked similar to the glow of a cats eye when caught in the head lights of a car. With in three days from the time I noticed his eye glowing, he woke up with the right eye pupil white and at that moment I noticed he couldn't see out of it. Two years old, he didn't cry or complain that anything was hurting him, neither did he act as though his vision was going. That day I took him into the pediatrician, and she immediately sent me to see the ophthalmologist. The first thing he said when he saw Ben's eyes was "There could be thirty things to turn you pupils white, but we will be looking for tumors." I believe that was the most frightening news I had ever heard. That moment began the year long trial.
HUMAN ECHOLOCATION
Human echolocation is an ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects. By actively creating sounds – for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths – people trained to orientate with echolocation can interpret the sound waves reflected by nearby objects, accurately identifying their location and size. This ability is used by some blind people for acoustic wayfinding, or navigating within their environment using auditory rather than visual cues. It is similar in principle to active sonar and to animal echolocation, which is employed by various groups including bats, dolphins and toothed whales.
John Chang A.K.A. "Dynamo Jack" Electric Eel man / Master of Psychic Power
Dynamo Jack and The Ring of Fire
John Chang - Dynamo Jack - psychic power Now, Dynamo Jack came into public view when he appeared in Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey, a documentary filmed by two brothers Lorne Blair and Lawrence Blair.
The documentary itself (actually it was a series of five documentary films) was very popular and was nominated for an Emmy.
The documentary was about the Indonesian archipelago and Dynamo Jack just happened to be in a segment called “East of Krakatoa”.
You see one of the crew members developed an eye infection during filming, and having heard about Dynamo Jack’s ability to heal with Qi, the crew asked Jack if he would heal the man.
Jack agreed and gave him an acupuncture treatment that did indeed heal him.
It was filmed and put into the documentary, but unfortunately Dynamo Jack didn’t know that the film would be distributed publicly and was angered when he found out.
The crew begged him to let them come back and film more of his abilities, but he refused.
For seven years.
Seven years later he contacted the crew and agreed to be filmed and even allowed them to bring three scientists with them, Catherine Nixon Cooke, former CEO and currently one of the Trustees of the Mind Science Foundation, Dr. Roger Nilson and Dr. Gregory Simpson, physicist from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Allegedly these films show John Chang (his real name) displaying healing, telekinesis and pyrokinesis.
(It’s said that Liao Tsu-Tong could disintegrate a broom with one touch) -squidoo
Electric-Eel Man John Chang aka Dynamo Jack produces energy and heat with his hands. Mo Pai Qigong Ring Magus of Java of Fire An Indonesian Odyssey
John Chang's pyrokinetic power faked?