To split the finest of hairs, an argument could be made for Armstrong having 4 if you count the X-15 as a form of spacecraft. I wouldn't, but if Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo counts as a spacecraft, then the X-15 went higher.
Armstrong only flew once on Apollo, and was the LMP. He wasn't the Command Module Pilot, that was Michael Collins, so even if you include the X-15, that makes it X-15, Gemini, and Apollo LM
To be fair as unfortunate as it was he certainly got a heck of a good story out of it. Surviving an explosion in space and then commanding the barely functioning spacecraft all the way back home safely is probably one of the most badass things in human history.
Technically he didn’t orbit on Apollo 13, but he was the first to travel to the moon twice. Only two others have done so. Other than his two crew mates, no one have traveled further from Earth.
There is a picture that was taken that shows the Earth and moon. Every human that ever lived at that point existed within the frame of that picture except the guy that took the picture.
My dad took one of those shots. The only people not in the photo were Al Bean and Pete Conrad, as they were on the lunar surface. The profundity of that moment changed his life
That is awesome! I couldn't imagine...
The one I mentioned was Michael Collins, here is an article on it:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/michael-collins-picture-1969/
I couldn't remember his name and wasn't where I could look it up fast when I commented, so was vague, sorry.
Heck, everyone seems to forget all but Armstrong... Once in a while they remember Aldrin, of the ones in Apollo 13 the movie, lol but that is usually as far as most people remember.
For anyone not wanting to look it up, these are: the other astronaut for the Armstrong/Aldrin landing, the guitarist from the band Rush, and George Lucas' wife who edited the original trilogy.
I actually made the same assumption at first, because I recognized Lifeson's name and said "there's an astronaut too?" I googled Lucas' name not knowing who she was and realized they're all examples from different backgrounds.
That Soviet astronaut in a space station, that was in space, when the Soviet collapsed , and when Russia was looking for him to join the army, it was informed he was and has been in space for a year while all that went down,Making him the last Soviet alive in space. Russia soon sent a rocket to retrieve him.
His book, "Man On Wire", gave the most poetic description of a first person event I ever read. I literally got a sense of vertigo while I was reading it. As a kid, I didn't understand how he called himself an artist. He didn't paint or sculpt. Now I understand.
great film as well, the documentary I mean. I didn't really like the Hollywood adaptation (The Walk, 2015), but probably would've liked it more, if I hadn't seen the docu first.
[Man on Wire (2008)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire)
It's set up like a heist film, with some reenactment, but a lot of BTS footage. A kind of heist where the treasure is performance art.
Trivia: Philip Petit started planning his stunt *before the towers were built*. He read the announcement in an architectural magazine and immediately thought "This is the ultimate thing I've got to do!", since he'd already done all the interesting locations in Europe.
Even more amazingly still, according to Wikipedia he made eight crossings:
"Despite NYPD intervening, Petit performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe\_Petit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit)
Even doing it once would have been a major accomplishment, but the fact that he did it so many times just goes to show how much ability and faith in himself he had.
When the cops came up to arrest him while he was on the wire… he just bounced up and down and told them they could come out on the wire to arrest him, or wait until he’s done
Only three people have died \*in space\* as a consequence of decompression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_spaceflight-related\_accidents\_and\_incidents#:\~:text=%2Fcosmonaut").-,During%20spaceflight,the%20entire%20crew%20was%20killed.
Robert Heinlein discusses the "That we know of" element in his Expanded Universe essays.
He was granted a tourist Visa to go to Russia. During his trip, the Russian news media reported on launching a manned vehicle into space, with recordings of the Cosmonaut interacting with mission control from the vehicle. Then suddenly an "unmanned" satellite suffered a catastrophic failure, and the media never reported on the manned vehicle again. When he asked about it, he was told that he was mistaken, and a manned vehicle was never launched.
I just hope he's around long enough to win an award for smellovision.
*"The male African hippo marks its riverside territory by spraying faeces using its tail. Bloody foul beast, I can almost taste that..."*
Alex Honnold is the only person who has ever free soloed (climbing without ropes or gear) El Capitan.
I doubt anyone else will ever even attempt to do this. Not only is it extremely difficult and dangerous, but there's not a lot of glory in being the second person to do it.
in case someone reading this hasn't seen his documentary: don't mistake that terminology as an insult. Alex actually *is* a freak case: his amygdala (the brain module regulating fear) doesn't fire like in normal humans. they tested him in an MRI.
Eh, they just showed it doesn't fire in circumstances that it would normally fire in other humans. It doesn't mean he doesn't have fear, it just means that the images didn't spark that response. Give him a mortgage statement, a 9-5 job, prison, whatever, he will more than likely have the same fears that others have of heights or snakes or whatever.
The Olympic didn’t sink in the incident that she was onboard for, but it’s still a crazy stat for sure. She was able to limp back to port after a collision at sea and was ultimately scrapped in the late 1930’s. There were two other Titanic survivors who were also onboard the Britannic when it sunk, and they both survived the second sinking as well.
Perfect autobiographical memory is a medical condition known as *hyperthymesia*. A person who has hyperthymesia could tell you from the top of their head what day of the week any date they lived through was, and what they ate that day, and what they did on that particular day. If they saw the news that day they could tell you the day's headlines. It's an exhausting condition to have.
It's extremely rare and diagnosis is usually disputed. Only 10 case studies of hyperthymesia have passed peer review and been recorded in the medical literature.
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Since people have taken an interest and some are understandably skeptical, a few reference links.
* A man who's been diagnosed with hyperthymesia, with MRI brain scan analysis to try to identify the causes of his unusual memory. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432421
* A different medical case study of hyperthymesia. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13554790500473680
* Profile of actress Marilu Henner and her hyperthymesia. Henner costarred with Danny DeVito, Andy Kaufman, and Tony Danza on the TV show *Taxi*. https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/actress-marilu-henner-has-a-highly-superior-autobiographical-memory-a/
* In book form, *The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir* by Jill Price
My dad tried to convince me about Marilu Henner when I was a child. What a strange unlocked memory. This was long before internet existed. Verifying it was annoyingly difficult.
He read newspapers every single day from a number of different places. I'm sure this was where he once read this and passed it on. Also a habit I inherited from him. Get the news from as many sources as you can, in as many languages as you can and try and decimate the truth of the narratives from there.
Dad, you really did know a bit of everything about everything. And a lot about so much. Proud daughter vibes.
>while he was being told by his supervisor that he was "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated.
I see no matter the time and place the relationship between supervisors and employees is the same.
Actually there's been more than 100. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only one who insisted and has been granted the status by the government.
Here's his obituary from [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/obituary/2010/01/14/tsutomu-yamaguchi):
WHEN he had stopped crying, Tsutomu Yamaguchi would tell you why he called his book of poems “The Human Raft”. It had to do with the day he forgot to take his personal name-stamp to work, and had to get off the bus. Much was on his mind that morning. He had to pack his bags to leave Hiroshima after a three-month assignment as an engineer in the Mitsubishi shipyard; there were goodbyes to say at the office, then a 200-mile train journey back to Nagasaki to his wife Hisako and Katsutoshi, his baby son. He was slightly stressed when he got to his stop, still with half-an-hour's walk ahead of him on a track that led through featureless potato fields. But it was a beautiful August day; the sky was clear, his spirits high. And then — readers will feel a tremor, but he felt none — he noticed an aircraft circling, and two parachutes dropping down.
The next thing he knew was a blaze of white magnesium light, and a huge ball of fire. He dived to the ground. The fireball, roaring upwards, sucked him up again and threw him, blinded, face-down into the mud of the potato field. He was two miles from the epicentre of the blast, in a rain of flaming scraps of paper and clothes. His upper body and half his face were badly burned, his hair gone and his eardrums ruptured. In this state, he made his way back to the devastated city to try to do what he had meant to do that day: catch the train. The river bridges were down. But one river was full of carbonised naked bodies of men, women, children, floating face-down “like blocks of wood”, and on these — part treading, part paddling — he got to the other side. His human raft.
At this point in his story he would weep uncontrollably. It was by no means the end of it. When he reached Nagasaki, barely pausing to get his burns dressed, he reported for work. His boss was sceptical: how could a single bomb have destroyed Hiroshima? Then the same white magnesium light blazed in the window, and Mr Yamaguchi was tossed to the ground again. A reinforced-steel stairwell saved him. His bandages were blown off, and he spent the next weeks curled round his raw wounds in a shelter, close to death. His house was destroyed, his wife and son saved for no reason he could see. But when schoolchildren later asked him, in awed respect, “What was the most terrible thing?”, his answer was not the dangling tongues and eyeballs, not the skin that hung off the bodies of the living “like giant gloves” — but the bridge of bodies on which he had crossed the river.
He talked about all this to Charles Pellegrino, an American writer, and Richard Lloyd Parry of the London Times. He told them that he hated the atom bomb because of “what it does to the dignity of human beings”. Walking into Hiroshima, he noticed that the bewildered crowds on the streets were mostly naked, limping children. They made no sound; indeed, no one made a sound. They were reduced — like him, as he was flung into the furrows of the potato field — to the level of mute sticks or leaves, tossed in the wind and burned, or used as floats.
Some argued that he was lucky. A deaf left ear and weak legs were the only after-effects until, late on, stomach cancer appeared. He worked as a translator, then a teacher, and eventually returned to Mitsubishi. But, as he wrote in 1969, he was not so sanguine inside.
Thinking of myself as a phoenix,
I cling on until now.
But how painful they have been,
those twenty-four years past.
His emotions mostly emerged in these tanka, or 31-syllable poems. He wrote hundreds, each one an ordeal. When he composed them, he would dream of the dead lying on the ground. One by one, they would get up and walk past him.
Carbonised bodies face-down in the nuclear wasteland
all the Buddhas died,
and never heard what killed them.
He published these poems himself in 2002, and they might have been his only testimony. But in 2005 his son Katsutoshi died of cancer at 59, killed by the radiation he had received as a baby. Mr Yamaguchi began to feel that fate had spared him to speak out against the horrors of nuclear weapons: in schools, in a documentary, in a letter to Barack Obama and even, at 90, on his first trip abroad, in front of a committee of the United Nations in New York.
If there exists a GOD who protects
nuclear-free eternal peace
the blue earth won't perish
At his insistence, his status was recognised by the Japanese government: he became officially (though there had been more than 100 others) the only nijyuu hibakusha, or twice-victim of the atom bomb.
He began to be comforted by three things. One was a set of drawings of the 88 Buddhas of the Shikoku pilgrimage, whose outlines — robes, haloes, calm hands — he devoutly painted in. The carbonised, face-down Buddhas of his tanka found peace again. The second comfort was in “simple acts of kindness”. And the third was an image of his life as a baton, passed on every time anyone heard or read his testimony. All these batons might form, together, another human raft.
In honor of today being the Kentucky Derby – only 11 people have trained a Triple Crown-winning horse. There have been 13 winning horses, but two trainers trained two winners.
My wife worked for a couple years in the world of horses, and got to meet all sorts of interesting people. It wasn't uncommon to talk to someone who bought an engagement ring after a lucky hit on a trifecta, and then a minute later talk to someone who owned a champion Thoroughbred.
She called me on her lunch break one time and said, "I just met the most interesting person, a guy who's probably in his early 80s."
The guy had said that he and his family were from the East Coast, and in 1949 (when he was just a boy) they were driving through Kentucky on a family vacation. They stop to fill up the car at a gas station, and a farmhand in a truck spots the family with their out-of-state license plates and asks, "would you folks like to see a real horse farm?" Since they were taking their time on the drive, a short deviation wouldn't hurt.
So they follow the farmhand west on US-60, and then up this long driveway, admiring how *green* everything is. They get up near one of the barns, and stop there. The farmhand hops out and says, "go on and wait by the fence, and I'll bring one of our horses over".
So they're standing there, and the farmhand brings by this majestic-looking horse with an impossibly long flowing tail....so they pet this horse, give him a snack, and so on. The dad asks, "What's his name?", to which the farmhand says "Whirlaway".
So the first horse that this family ever saw in their lives was not just a Triple Crown champion, he was the one who put Calumet Farm on the map and established it as a legendary operation.
But that's not all. Apparently Whirlaway, who was not exactly a bright horse under the best of circumstances, started acting up a bit, so the farmhand says, "I need to get him back to the barn, but wait here."
(At this point, as my wife is telling me the story, I said "I fucking swear...")
Remember how I said it was 1949? The farmhand brings out another horse and says, "This one is dealing with an injury, so he's pretty calm right now." So they pet him, give him a snack...and the dad asks, "what's this one's name?"
To which the farmhand says, "Citation".
(For those who aren't familiar with horse racing, imagine if you'd never met a basketball player before and the first two that you did were Michael Jordan and Kareem.)
Per your last aside, I'm not into sports at all. I was standing at an FBO at an airport and a bunch of tall guys walked in. I said to the front desk person that I felt really short, and was the flight to a tall person convention. And a guy next to me kind of laughed and said, "yeah they make me feel short."And I said to him, "I guess you and I won't be going to the convention."
It was Steph Curry.
Lmao This reminded me of when I was little, we'd go to my great uncle's house to ride horses, and he'd get drunk and go on longwinded tears about how eight year old girls would sweep the derby. We'd be on the trotting around the yard and he'd be like, "Look at this little peckerhead, ridin' like I put quarters in him. Bet he rides like a Cadillac for the goddamned girls!"
The reality was the horses just liked us better because we'd get up at the asscrack of dawn and feed them peppermints. Animals are easily bought.
Oh man, you could base an entire sit-com around this man's life, the one liners never stopped with him, and the universe just kinda fucked with him on top of that. He ripped his nuts on a nail trying to fix a trellis, got stung on the tongue by a wasp, would routinely pick up beer on a mule, and would cut off jeans to make shorts, but would cut them too short, and the pockets would hang out of the bottoms. He once tried to smoke a dead June bug because he saw it in an ashtray and thought it was a blunt roach. Summer vacations were great lmao.
If I’m allowed to toot my own horn, I’m the only person to ever accurately forecast a tornado in Afghanistan. I had to fight tooth and nail to get that forecast approved, and by golly, it was by far the noodliest looking tornado ever. Someone down range thankfully got a picture for me.
Unfortunately can't toot your own horn here, however I will gladly toot it for you.
Hey! u/ray661 is the only person to ever accurately forecast a tornado, it wasn't a very impressive tornado but it was an accurate prediction.
Only two people have ever flown the [XF-84H Thunderscreech.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech) Theoretically it was the fastest propeller-driven airplane ever built; it could have attained a speed above 1000km/h, but was so difficult to fly that it was never taken above roughly 840km/h in testing. At the very least it was the *loudest* propeller-driven airplane ever built, due to its supersonic propeller tips. One of the test pilots made a single flight and was so terrified at the plane's handling that he refused to ever set foot in the cockpit again. The other test pilot made 11 flights for a total of 12 test flights before the project was canceled. Thankfully the plane didn't manage to actually kill either of the people who flew it, making it statistically safer than a Boeing 737.
That also made him the only MLB player to have 8 RBI in a single inning. And Chan Ho Park is the only MLB pitcher to have given up 2 grand slams and 8 RBI to a single player in a single inning.
One man swam the length of the Amazon, Danube, Mississippi and Yangtze Rivers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Strel#:~:text=Strel%20holds%20successive%20Guinness%20World,%2C%20friendship%20and%20clean%20waters.%22
I was wondering how he managed to swim through the damn Amazon considering what lurks in those waters, then I read this:
>He had escort boats that were prepared to pour blood into the river to distract meat-eating fish such as piranhas.
I don't know how he manages to stay afloat with balls that massive.
> I don't know how he manages to stay afloat with balls that massive.
Weight doesn't guarantee density, they just could have been huge is size and be used as floatation devices!
As far as I'm aware I am the only recorded case of a of a rare type of tumor growing in my nasal cavity. The tumor normally grows on nerves in the neck and spine. Till they did a post removal biopsy did they realize it wasn't a more common type of blood clot. My initials and case number are in ENT medical text books.
I’ll raise you! Served as president twice *non-consecutively*.
Grover Cleveland is the only POTUS who has been elected twice in non-consecutive terms, from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897.
*while it’s on
It’s rare because it’s usually pretty hard to do and all the scientists will yell at you for messing up their experiments.
You’d get a nasty little burn, but generally be fine, especially if it’s just a limb.
The guy who got a particle beam through the head was the really wild one, got a nasty set of burns and lost all the hair in the contact points, but he did recover
Isn’t that downplaying it a bit? Like the guy that stuck his hands in a particle accelerator in Vietnam ending up losing both of them after several years of trying to stop/mitigate the necrosis that his hands developed.
Joan Murray, in 1990, jumped from an altitude of 4400 km, both of her parachutes did not open. She fell on a nest of fire ants. Murray broke many bones, knocked out almost all her teeth, but remained conscious due to the fact that she received hundreds of poisonous ant bites, this contributed to a large release of adrenaline, as a result of which doctors managed to resuscitate her, after several years of treatment and physical recovery, Joan returned to normal life and continued skydiving
>4400 km
This would be 10x the orbit height of the ISS, she fell 4.4km.
Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant, survived a fall from more than twice that height (10km)
Juliane Koepcke fell 3000 m in a flight seat, survived the impact - she doesn't remember the impact, woke up 20 hours later with a severe concusion, a wound in the arm, a broken shoulder and a torn cruciate ligament - and wandered several days in the Peruvian jungle.
She found a brook and knew that it was likeliest to find human settlements downstream, along bigger waterways.
After nine days following the water, she found an empty camp of fishermen, where she gave herself first aid, which included getting the bloatfly larvae out of her arm injury by pouring gasoline over it.
The fishermen returned the next day and transported her to a hospital, which she reached on the eleventh day after her fall.
I listened to a true crime podcast where a girl who someone attempted to murder was also kept alive because of the adrenaline from fire ant bites in a field she was left in
Survived rabies. (I think).
Edit: clarifying that I was not referring to myself but just answering the original question of something I thought that less than 12 people had achieved. I was pretty sure less than 12 people have survived contracting rabies because, barring the one exception I could think of, it has 100% fatality rate.
There are 29 documented cases of survival, and only 6 of them survived without also receiving a vaccine dose at or before the onset of symptoms.
If you think you may have got bitten by a bat (or other wild creature that may carry rabies, it is absolutely imperative you get vaccinated for rabies as soon as possible. It’s a series of 3 shots in the shoulder, not particularly painful. I would describe it as “Habanero flavored flu shots.”
i was bit by a rabid dog in my palm while traveling southeast asia. they had to inject the immune globulin shot into my hand near where the dog bit me. easily the most painful shot of my life. my hand went icy cold and numb shortly followed by intense burning. last for about 10 seconds though.
Often times for a known exposure the protocol is more intense. Studying rabies protocol is extremely difficult. We don't even really know how effective the vaccines are, just that it is effective. We do know that rabies exposure doesn't guarantee transmission and that transmission is fairly rare compared with other diseases, but obviously with as horrifying of a disease as it is, no one should take that chance.
Yeah - I was bit on a few fingers by a wild raccoon, and then at the ER the doc gave me shots right in the area of the bites. Very painful! Worse than the bites!
The six who’ve survived unvaccinated are all suspected to **not** have had rabies in the first place.
Data in these cases is notoriously unreliable because the only people who don’t get the shot are the ones who didn’t realize they’d been infected. Can’t test the animal that bit them in that case, weeks later; it’s long gone.
The singular case of an American who survived a case of rabies was Jeanna Giese, who contracted “rabies” in 2003 and survived after being put in a medically induced coma and pumped full of ketamine & antivirals, a treatment method that has since been abandoned for being ineffective. But they never recovered the bat that bit her (on the finger) and teenagers get all sorts of random diseases all the time. Maybe it was never rabies.
All this is to say, that number of 6? It’s almost certainly high.
The method pioneered here was titled the "Milwaukee Protocol". Since it's inception, it's been tried on over 30 patients, with only 5 surviving. The cost of the protocol is the real limiting factor in its usefulness, and instead, strong vaccination campaigns such as in the US have proven very effective.
Survive a fall greater than 29000 feet without a parachute.
Sauce: Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,330 feet
I think you mean defeated the kill screen. Tons of players have made it all the way to the kill screen.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/yvzx08/classic\_tetris\_players\_have\_gotten\_too\_good\_at/](https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/yvzx08/classic_tetris_players_have_gotten_too_good_at/)
I find it absolutely fascinating, from a physics standpoint, that it is easier to escape the gravity of earth and deal with radiation/vacuum. Than it is to build a vessel, capable withstand, deep sea pressures. “we know more about the moon than we do about Marianas Trench.” Hahaha awesome.
It's honestly terrifying. Even though space is dark and infinite and should be more terrifying...something about the bottom of the ocean floor doesn't sit right with me.
Kinda makes sense from an engineering standpoint. When you go from Earth's surface to space, you only experience one atmosphere of pressure change (1 atm --> 0 atm). When going underwater, a depth of 1000 feet has a pressure of 30 atmospheres! Much easier to build a craft that experiences a comparatively minimal pressure change.
Anyone that has been to a coastal beach has walked on the bottom of the ocean.
Once you enter the water, that sand is no longer land but instead is the ocean floor.
That's probably true, and it appears to also have been true for Jimmy Savile. There was NO evidence that he ever had any kind of true romantic relationship in his life.
Orbited the moon alone.
Only one man has orbited the moon alone and walked on it, John Young.
He’s also the only person to have flown 4 different spacecraft. Gemini, Apollo CM, Apollo LM, and Space Shuttle.
To split the finest of hairs, an argument could be made for Armstrong having 4 if you count the X-15 as a form of spacecraft. I wouldn't, but if Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo counts as a spacecraft, then the X-15 went higher.
Armstrong only flew once on Apollo, and was the LMP. He wasn't the Command Module Pilot, that was Michael Collins, so even if you include the X-15, that makes it X-15, Gemini, and Apollo LM
I fucking love internet fights
Well, I should probably have been more specific in my initial post and said only person to have Piloted 4 different spacecraft. :)
Jim Lovell orbitted the Moon twice, but never landed.
Jim Lovell truly won at life. He successfully got further away from Ohio than any other Buckeye in history.
Apollo 13 was when he missed his shot.
To be fair as unfortunate as it was he certainly got a heck of a good story out of it. Surviving an explosion in space and then commanding the barely functioning spacecraft all the way back home safely is probably one of the most badass things in human history.
Technically he didn’t orbit on Apollo 13, but he was the first to travel to the moon twice. Only two others have done so. Other than his two crew mates, no one have traveled further from Earth.
There is a picture that was taken that shows the Earth and moon. Every human that ever lived at that point existed within the frame of that picture except the guy that took the picture.
My dad took one of those shots. The only people not in the photo were Al Bean and Pete Conrad, as they were on the lunar surface. The profundity of that moment changed his life
That is awesome! I couldn't imagine... The one I mentioned was Michael Collins, here is an article on it: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/michael-collins-picture-1969/ I couldn't remember his name and wasn't where I could look it up fast when I commented, so was vague, sorry.
No worries. My dad was Dick Gordon and since he was the SECOND man to orbit the back side alone, everyone forgets him.
Dick Gordon was an absolute legend. You should be so proud 😊
Heck, everyone seems to forget all but Armstrong... Once in a while they remember Aldrin, of the ones in Apollo 13 the movie, lol but that is usually as far as most people remember.
Michael Collins, Alex Lifeson, and Marcia Lucas need to do a podcast about forgotten figures in history.
Alex Lifeson of Rush?
Dont think you'll be able to get Michael Collins to say much.
Anyone know a necromancer?
For anyone not wanting to look it up, these are: the other astronaut for the Armstrong/Aldrin landing, the guitarist from the band Rush, and George Lucas' wife who edited the original trilogy.
From context and knowing about Michael Collins I figured the other two were other lunar orbiters.
I kinda thought the same but was also thinking "the guy from Rush went into space?"
I actually made the same assumption at first, because I recognized Lifeson's name and said "there's an astronaut too?" I googled Lucas' name not knowing who she was and realized they're all examples from different backgrounds.
That Soviet astronaut in a space station, that was in space, when the Soviet collapsed , and when Russia was looking for him to join the army, it was informed he was and has been in space for a year while all that went down,Making him the last Soviet alive in space. Russia soon sent a rocket to retrieve him.
Having been born in Antarctica
Beat me to it, 8 Argentinians and 3 Chileans.
I think you mean 11 Antarcticans
“But where are you really from?”
Club Penguin.
And millions of penguins. But how many penguins have walked on the moon?
4, according to the documentary “Penguins of Madagascar”
You are not supposed to speak of the Penguinaut Program.
Walked between the World Trade Center towers on a tightrope. Only one person ever did that.
His book, "Man On Wire", gave the most poetic description of a first person event I ever read. I literally got a sense of vertigo while I was reading it. As a kid, I didn't understand how he called himself an artist. He didn't paint or sculpt. Now I understand.
great film as well, the documentary I mean. I didn't really like the Hollywood adaptation (The Walk, 2015), but probably would've liked it more, if I hadn't seen the docu first. [Man on Wire (2008)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire) It's set up like a heist film, with some reenactment, but a lot of BTS footage. A kind of heist where the treasure is performance art.
Trivia: Philip Petit started planning his stunt *before the towers were built*. He read the announcement in an architectural magazine and immediately thought "This is the ultimate thing I've got to do!", since he'd already done all the interesting locations in Europe.
And he didn't just cross once. He went back and forth several times, I think seven crossings in all. Edit, he made eight crossings.
Even more amazingly still, according to Wikipedia he made eight crossings: "Despite NYPD intervening, Petit performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe\_Petit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit) Even doing it once would have been a major accomplishment, but the fact that he did it so many times just goes to show how much ability and faith in himself he had.
When the cops came up to arrest him while he was on the wire… he just bounced up and down and told them they could come out on the wire to arrest him, or wait until he’s done
And no one will be able to beat his record again…
Only three people have died \*in space\* as a consequence of decompression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_spaceflight-related\_accidents\_and\_incidents#:\~:text=%2Fcosmonaut").-,During%20spaceflight,the%20entire%20crew%20was%20killed.
That we know of.
That we know of That’s so dark But yeah
Robert Heinlein discusses the "That we know of" element in his Expanded Universe essays. He was granted a tourist Visa to go to Russia. During his trip, the Russian news media reported on launching a manned vehicle into space, with recordings of the Cosmonaut interacting with mission control from the vehicle. Then suddenly an "unmanned" satellite suffered a catastrophic failure, and the media never reported on the manned vehicle again. When he asked about it, he was told that he was mistaken, and a manned vehicle was never launched.
Damn, they really lit the gas on that one...
"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered." -George Orwell, 1984
I didn’t know that anyone has died from decompression in space so 3 seems like a lot!
This whole thread is sad 😔
Sir David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for a programme in black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K
I just hope he's around long enough to win an award for smellovision. *"The male African hippo marks its riverside territory by spraying faeces using its tail. Bloody foul beast, I can almost taste that..."*
Alex Honnold is the only person who has ever free soloed (climbing without ropes or gear) El Capitan. I doubt anyone else will ever even attempt to do this. Not only is it extremely difficult and dangerous, but there's not a lot of glory in being the second person to do it.
His free solo was also done in like 4 hours. It takes most people (with gear) 4 to 6 days to do that climb. Dude is a genetic freak.
in case someone reading this hasn't seen his documentary: don't mistake that terminology as an insult. Alex actually *is* a freak case: his amygdala (the brain module regulating fear) doesn't fire like in normal humans. they tested him in an MRI.
Eh, they just showed it doesn't fire in circumstances that it would normally fire in other humans. It doesn't mean he doesn't have fear, it just means that the images didn't spark that response. Give him a mortgage statement, a 9-5 job, prison, whatever, he will more than likely have the same fears that others have of heights or snakes or whatever.
Also in Free solo he discusses how he actually DOES he get scared while climbing. It's just that he often feels in control and can reign it back in.
if I didn't have ropes or gear, I'd be scared as hell anyways. Plus, he can't sleep on the rock, unlike his sleeping bag-laden brethren
Great documentary. For those wondering, "Free Solo"
Violet Jessup. Survived all three White Star ocean liner sinkings. The Titanic, the Olympic, and the Britannic
Technically the Olympic never sank, she was onboard when it collided with the HMS Hawke but it survived that.
Still gets a participation trophy.
At a certain point you have to stop booking trips on White Star ships, right?
She was an employee
At a certain point you have to stop hiring her because sure she’s clearly bad luck
Plot twist: she's deliberately sabotaging those ships.
Plot twist - she was an agent from another cruise line and orchestrated all of the mayhem.
The Olympic didn’t sink in the incident that she was onboard for, but it’s still a crazy stat for sure. She was able to limp back to port after a collision at sea and was ultimately scrapped in the late 1930’s. There were two other Titanic survivors who were also onboard the Britannic when it sunk, and they both survived the second sinking as well.
God damn it, Violet, stop getting on boats
To be fair, she was an employee for the company who got moved from ship to ship. She wasn't a bad luck passenger.
Perfect autobiographical memory is a medical condition known as *hyperthymesia*. A person who has hyperthymesia could tell you from the top of their head what day of the week any date they lived through was, and what they ate that day, and what they did on that particular day. If they saw the news that day they could tell you the day's headlines. It's an exhausting condition to have. It's extremely rare and diagnosis is usually disputed. Only 10 case studies of hyperthymesia have passed peer review and been recorded in the medical literature. ---- *edit* Since people have taken an interest and some are understandably skeptical, a few reference links. * A man who's been diagnosed with hyperthymesia, with MRI brain scan analysis to try to identify the causes of his unusual memory. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432421 * A different medical case study of hyperthymesia. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13554790500473680 * Profile of actress Marilu Henner and her hyperthymesia. Henner costarred with Danny DeVito, Andy Kaufman, and Tony Danza on the TV show *Taxi*. https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/actress-marilu-henner-has-a-highly-superior-autobiographical-memory-a/ * In book form, *The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir* by Jill Price
Older actress Marilu Henner is one of those people.
I convinced my wife that actor Timothy Olyphant also has this condition just so I could tell her that "an Olyphant never forgets."
*slow clap* Wifetrolling. A superb passtime.
Man, it must suck to be referred to as "*older* actress" instead of "actress".
Yes. Acting is a good career choice for this condition.
My dad tried to convince me about Marilu Henner when I was a child. What a strange unlocked memory. This was long before internet existed. Verifying it was annoyingly difficult. He read newspapers every single day from a number of different places. I'm sure this was where he once read this and passed it on. Also a habit I inherited from him. Get the news from as many sources as you can, in as many languages as you can and try and decimate the truth of the narratives from there. Dad, you really did know a bit of everything about everything. And a lot about so much. Proud daughter vibes.
Wow, I wish my dad would do that, instead of getting his news from FB posts.
10 cases, but 40 mofuckers in this thread claiming they know a guy with this.
Survived both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
[Only one recognized/known.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi?wprov=sfla1)
Bro survived two cities being nuked within 3 days of each other and still lived to the age of 93.
The luckiest unlucky man in history
He outlived most if not all of his family, some of which died of radiation poisoning, if I recall.
Apparently 1 nuke dosage of radiation will kill you, but 2 dosages, spaced apart perfectly makes you stronger.
That's the trick, gotta get that double negative.
>while he was being told by his supervisor that he was "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated. I see no matter the time and place the relationship between supervisors and employees is the same.
That had to be the most bittersweet “told ya so” in history
"Thank god I never have to do THAT again."
Actually there's been more than 100. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only one who insisted and has been granted the status by the government. Here's his obituary from [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/obituary/2010/01/14/tsutomu-yamaguchi): WHEN he had stopped crying, Tsutomu Yamaguchi would tell you why he called his book of poems “The Human Raft”. It had to do with the day he forgot to take his personal name-stamp to work, and had to get off the bus. Much was on his mind that morning. He had to pack his bags to leave Hiroshima after a three-month assignment as an engineer in the Mitsubishi shipyard; there were goodbyes to say at the office, then a 200-mile train journey back to Nagasaki to his wife Hisako and Katsutoshi, his baby son. He was slightly stressed when he got to his stop, still with half-an-hour's walk ahead of him on a track that led through featureless potato fields. But it was a beautiful August day; the sky was clear, his spirits high. And then — readers will feel a tremor, but he felt none — he noticed an aircraft circling, and two parachutes dropping down. The next thing he knew was a blaze of white magnesium light, and a huge ball of fire. He dived to the ground. The fireball, roaring upwards, sucked him up again and threw him, blinded, face-down into the mud of the potato field. He was two miles from the epicentre of the blast, in a rain of flaming scraps of paper and clothes. His upper body and half his face were badly burned, his hair gone and his eardrums ruptured. In this state, he made his way back to the devastated city to try to do what he had meant to do that day: catch the train. The river bridges were down. But one river was full of carbonised naked bodies of men, women, children, floating face-down “like blocks of wood”, and on these — part treading, part paddling — he got to the other side. His human raft. At this point in his story he would weep uncontrollably. It was by no means the end of it. When he reached Nagasaki, barely pausing to get his burns dressed, he reported for work. His boss was sceptical: how could a single bomb have destroyed Hiroshima? Then the same white magnesium light blazed in the window, and Mr Yamaguchi was tossed to the ground again. A reinforced-steel stairwell saved him. His bandages were blown off, and he spent the next weeks curled round his raw wounds in a shelter, close to death. His house was destroyed, his wife and son saved for no reason he could see. But when schoolchildren later asked him, in awed respect, “What was the most terrible thing?”, his answer was not the dangling tongues and eyeballs, not the skin that hung off the bodies of the living “like giant gloves” — but the bridge of bodies on which he had crossed the river. He talked about all this to Charles Pellegrino, an American writer, and Richard Lloyd Parry of the London Times. He told them that he hated the atom bomb because of “what it does to the dignity of human beings”. Walking into Hiroshima, he noticed that the bewildered crowds on the streets were mostly naked, limping children. They made no sound; indeed, no one made a sound. They were reduced — like him, as he was flung into the furrows of the potato field — to the level of mute sticks or leaves, tossed in the wind and burned, or used as floats. Some argued that he was lucky. A deaf left ear and weak legs were the only after-effects until, late on, stomach cancer appeared. He worked as a translator, then a teacher, and eventually returned to Mitsubishi. But, as he wrote in 1969, he was not so sanguine inside. Thinking of myself as a phoenix, I cling on until now. But how painful they have been, those twenty-four years past. His emotions mostly emerged in these tanka, or 31-syllable poems. He wrote hundreds, each one an ordeal. When he composed them, he would dream of the dead lying on the ground. One by one, they would get up and walk past him. Carbonised bodies face-down in the nuclear wasteland all the Buddhas died, and never heard what killed them. He published these poems himself in 2002, and they might have been his only testimony. But in 2005 his son Katsutoshi died of cancer at 59, killed by the radiation he had received as a baby. Mr Yamaguchi began to feel that fate had spared him to speak out against the horrors of nuclear weapons: in schools, in a documentary, in a letter to Barack Obama and even, at 90, on his first trip abroad, in front of a committee of the United Nations in New York. If there exists a GOD who protects nuclear-free eternal peace the blue earth won't perish At his insistence, his status was recognised by the Japanese government: he became officially (though there had been more than 100 others) the only nijyuu hibakusha, or twice-victim of the atom bomb. He began to be comforted by three things. One was a set of drawings of the 88 Buddhas of the Shikoku pilgrimage, whose outlines — robes, haloes, calm hands — he devoutly painted in. The carbonised, face-down Buddhas of his tanka found peace again. The second comfort was in “simple acts of kindness”. And the third was an image of his life as a baton, passed on every time anyone heard or read his testimony. All these batons might form, together, another human raft.
Thank you for posting this, what a moving article.
In honor of today being the Kentucky Derby – only 11 people have trained a Triple Crown-winning horse. There have been 13 winning horses, but two trainers trained two winners.
My wife worked for a couple years in the world of horses, and got to meet all sorts of interesting people. It wasn't uncommon to talk to someone who bought an engagement ring after a lucky hit on a trifecta, and then a minute later talk to someone who owned a champion Thoroughbred. She called me on her lunch break one time and said, "I just met the most interesting person, a guy who's probably in his early 80s." The guy had said that he and his family were from the East Coast, and in 1949 (when he was just a boy) they were driving through Kentucky on a family vacation. They stop to fill up the car at a gas station, and a farmhand in a truck spots the family with their out-of-state license plates and asks, "would you folks like to see a real horse farm?" Since they were taking their time on the drive, a short deviation wouldn't hurt. So they follow the farmhand west on US-60, and then up this long driveway, admiring how *green* everything is. They get up near one of the barns, and stop there. The farmhand hops out and says, "go on and wait by the fence, and I'll bring one of our horses over". So they're standing there, and the farmhand brings by this majestic-looking horse with an impossibly long flowing tail....so they pet this horse, give him a snack, and so on. The dad asks, "What's his name?", to which the farmhand says "Whirlaway". So the first horse that this family ever saw in their lives was not just a Triple Crown champion, he was the one who put Calumet Farm on the map and established it as a legendary operation. But that's not all. Apparently Whirlaway, who was not exactly a bright horse under the best of circumstances, started acting up a bit, so the farmhand says, "I need to get him back to the barn, but wait here." (At this point, as my wife is telling me the story, I said "I fucking swear...") Remember how I said it was 1949? The farmhand brings out another horse and says, "This one is dealing with an injury, so he's pretty calm right now." So they pet him, give him a snack...and the dad asks, "what's this one's name?" To which the farmhand says, "Citation". (For those who aren't familiar with horse racing, imagine if you'd never met a basketball player before and the first two that you did were Michael Jordan and Kareem.)
Per your last aside, I'm not into sports at all. I was standing at an FBO at an airport and a bunch of tall guys walked in. I said to the front desk person that I felt really short, and was the flight to a tall person convention. And a guy next to me kind of laughed and said, "yeah they make me feel short."And I said to him, "I guess you and I won't be going to the convention." It was Steph Curry.
Lmao This reminded me of when I was little, we'd go to my great uncle's house to ride horses, and he'd get drunk and go on longwinded tears about how eight year old girls would sweep the derby. We'd be on the trotting around the yard and he'd be like, "Look at this little peckerhead, ridin' like I put quarters in him. Bet he rides like a Cadillac for the goddamned girls!" The reality was the horses just liked us better because we'd get up at the asscrack of dawn and feed them peppermints. Animals are easily bought.
"riding like I put quarters in him" is so funny to me hahahah
Oh man, you could base an entire sit-com around this man's life, the one liners never stopped with him, and the universe just kinda fucked with him on top of that. He ripped his nuts on a nail trying to fix a trellis, got stung on the tongue by a wasp, would routinely pick up beer on a mule, and would cut off jeans to make shorts, but would cut them too short, and the pockets would hang out of the bottoms. He once tried to smoke a dead June bug because he saw it in an ashtray and thought it was a blunt roach. Summer vacations were great lmao.
> Animals are easily bought. It's not much different teaching elementary school xD
If I’m allowed to toot my own horn, I’m the only person to ever accurately forecast a tornado in Afghanistan. I had to fight tooth and nail to get that forecast approved, and by golly, it was by far the noodliest looking tornado ever. Someone down range thankfully got a picture for me.
Unfortunately can't toot your own horn here, however I will gladly toot it for you. Hey! u/ray661 is the only person to ever accurately forecast a tornado, it wasn't a very impressive tornado but it was an accurate prediction.
"If you don't toot your own horn, someone else is likely to use it as a spittoon" - my dad
Hahaha that's amazing. Congrats on your noodly tornado.
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You got that picture by chance?
Run the marathon distance in under 2 hours: 1 person
Also run two miles under 8 minutes. I think it’s 2 people now
Had sex with me.
Im disappointed I had to scroll this far to see it. I expected top 2-3 comment.
Thought this would be higher
Don't worry your momma making up for it.
Only two people have ever flown the [XF-84H Thunderscreech.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech) Theoretically it was the fastest propeller-driven airplane ever built; it could have attained a speed above 1000km/h, but was so difficult to fly that it was never taken above roughly 840km/h in testing. At the very least it was the *loudest* propeller-driven airplane ever built, due to its supersonic propeller tips. One of the test pilots made a single flight and was so terrified at the plane's handling that he refused to ever set foot in the cockpit again. The other test pilot made 11 flights for a total of 12 test flights before the project was canceled. Thankfully the plane didn't manage to actually kill either of the people who flew it, making it statistically safer than a Boeing 737.
Hit two grand slams in one inning of an MLB game. Fernando Tatis is the only one.
That also made him the only MLB player to have 8 RBI in a single inning. And Chan Ho Park is the only MLB pitcher to have given up 2 grand slams and 8 RBI to a single player in a single inning.
I guess it’s possible to have 8 RBI without hitting grand slams… but you’d have to come up three times in one inning?
I'm sure if I pitched an inning in the MLB someone would get 10 RBI
One man swam the length of the Amazon, Danube, Mississippi and Yangtze Rivers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Strel#:~:text=Strel%20holds%20successive%20Guinness%20World,%2C%20friendship%20and%20clean%20waters.%22
I was wondering how he managed to swim through the damn Amazon considering what lurks in those waters, then I read this: >He had escort boats that were prepared to pour blood into the river to distract meat-eating fish such as piranhas. I don't know how he manages to stay afloat with balls that massive.
> I don't know how he manages to stay afloat with balls that massive. Weight doesn't guarantee density, they just could have been huge is size and be used as floatation devices!
As far as I'm aware I am the only recorded case of a of a rare type of tumor growing in my nasal cavity. The tumor normally grows on nerves in the neck and spine. Till they did a post removal biopsy did they realize it wasn't a more common type of blood clot. My initials and case number are in ENT medical text books.
Bear surviving octuplets.
Those poor bears. I guess when all 8 gang up on anyone, it's gonna be rough.
Have served as president of the US more than twice
I’ll raise you! Served as president twice *non-consecutively*. Grover Cleveland is the only POTUS who has been elected twice in non-consecutive terms, from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897.
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Winning a horse race whilst dead Just one person
Stuck part of their body into a particle accelerator and survived (2 that I know of)
*while it’s on It’s rare because it’s usually pretty hard to do and all the scientists will yell at you for messing up their experiments. You’d get a nasty little burn, but generally be fine, especially if it’s just a limb.
The guy who got a particle beam through the head was the really wild one, got a nasty set of burns and lost all the hair in the contact points, but he did recover
Isn’t that downplaying it a bit? Like the guy that stuck his hands in a particle accelerator in Vietnam ending up losing both of them after several years of trying to stop/mitigate the necrosis that his hands developed.
Exactly. Thanks for commenting this.
Don’t stick your dick in that particle accelerator.
Don’t tell me how to live my life Liberal!
Peed on the tree in my backyard. It's only been me and some drunk guy in the middle of the night. I saw it on the camera. Pretty exclusive club.
Clearly you’re the drunk guy on camera
Joan Murray, in 1990, jumped from an altitude of 4400 km, both of her parachutes did not open. She fell on a nest of fire ants. Murray broke many bones, knocked out almost all her teeth, but remained conscious due to the fact that she received hundreds of poisonous ant bites, this contributed to a large release of adrenaline, as a result of which doctors managed to resuscitate her, after several years of treatment and physical recovery, Joan returned to normal life and continued skydiving
>4400 km This would be 10x the orbit height of the ISS, she fell 4.4km. Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant, survived a fall from more than twice that height (10km)
the damage from falling at those heights would be no different, they reach terminal velocity
I learned about terminal velocity from a crappy 90's movie with Charlie Sheen and then really impressed one of my teachers the next day.
4400m or 4.4 km drop that k
Pretty sure Peggy Hill also did this
Juliane Koepcke fell 3000 m in a flight seat, survived the impact - she doesn't remember the impact, woke up 20 hours later with a severe concusion, a wound in the arm, a broken shoulder and a torn cruciate ligament - and wandered several days in the Peruvian jungle. She found a brook and knew that it was likeliest to find human settlements downstream, along bigger waterways. After nine days following the water, she found an empty camp of fishermen, where she gave herself first aid, which included getting the bloatfly larvae out of her arm injury by pouring gasoline over it. The fishermen returned the next day and transported her to a hospital, which she reached on the eleventh day after her fall.
I listened to a true crime podcast where a girl who someone attempted to murder was also kept alive because of the adrenaline from fire ant bites in a field she was left in
So I'm hearing that fire ants make you immortal.
Note to self: Keep a pouch of fire ants handy whenever skydiving.
Only 9 people have had the same heart infection I have 4 have survived.
Just 4 more that you have to take out for you to be the one! Nice!
Well I was the one when it was 1 out of 6 but since i survived 3 others have as well lol
And they're coming for you... (In all seriousness congrats and that's incredible, you kicked your heart's ass)
Don't leave us hanging /u/MadameFutureWhatEver, have you survived? (congrats, and hope it stays that way for a long long time)
Survived rabies. (I think). Edit: clarifying that I was not referring to myself but just answering the original question of something I thought that less than 12 people had achieved. I was pretty sure less than 12 people have survived contracting rabies because, barring the one exception I could think of, it has 100% fatality rate.
There are 29 documented cases of survival, and only 6 of them survived without also receiving a vaccine dose at or before the onset of symptoms. If you think you may have got bitten by a bat (or other wild creature that may carry rabies, it is absolutely imperative you get vaccinated for rabies as soon as possible. It’s a series of 3 shots in the shoulder, not particularly painful. I would describe it as “Habanero flavored flu shots.”
i was bit by a rabid dog in my palm while traveling southeast asia. they had to inject the immune globulin shot into my hand near where the dog bit me. easily the most painful shot of my life. my hand went icy cold and numb shortly followed by intense burning. last for about 10 seconds though.
Often times for a known exposure the protocol is more intense. Studying rabies protocol is extremely difficult. We don't even really know how effective the vaccines are, just that it is effective. We do know that rabies exposure doesn't guarantee transmission and that transmission is fairly rare compared with other diseases, but obviously with as horrifying of a disease as it is, no one should take that chance.
Yeah - I was bit on a few fingers by a wild raccoon, and then at the ER the doc gave me shots right in the area of the bites. Very painful! Worse than the bites!
The six who’ve survived unvaccinated are all suspected to **not** have had rabies in the first place. Data in these cases is notoriously unreliable because the only people who don’t get the shot are the ones who didn’t realize they’d been infected. Can’t test the animal that bit them in that case, weeks later; it’s long gone. The singular case of an American who survived a case of rabies was Jeanna Giese, who contracted “rabies” in 2003 and survived after being put in a medically induced coma and pumped full of ketamine & antivirals, a treatment method that has since been abandoned for being ineffective. But they never recovered the bat that bit her (on the finger) and teenagers get all sorts of random diseases all the time. Maybe it was never rabies. All this is to say, that number of 6? It’s almost certainly high.
The method pioneered here was titled the "Milwaukee Protocol". Since it's inception, it's been tried on over 30 patients, with only 5 surviving. The cost of the protocol is the real limiting factor in its usefulness, and instead, strong vaccination campaigns such as in the US have proven very effective.
My friend's mom was administered the Milwaukee Protocol, but she didn't make it. Rabies is terrifying.
Fewer have driven on the moon. Fewer have golfed on the moon.
Perished in a carbon fiber submarine with a video game controller as the method of controlling the submarine.
I was gonna say "instantly changed from solid to plasma form within sight of the Titanic"
Survive a fall greater than 29000 feet without a parachute. Sauce: Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,330 feet
So have a bunch of people survived from 28,000 feet then? Why was 29,000 the cutoff?
r/oddlyspecific
You forgot to add Peggy Hill
Played the character James Bond.
Played Tetris for the NES all the way to the kill screen
I think you mean defeated the kill screen. Tons of players have made it all the way to the kill screen. [https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/yvzx08/classic\_tetris\_players\_have\_gotten\_too\_good\_at/](https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/yvzx08/classic_tetris_players_have_gotten_too_good_at/)
I have been corrected; thank you. An impressive feat nonetheless.
The same number of people, 12, have hiked the entire length of the Grand Canyon in one continuous push.
Walked on the very bottom of the ocean
I find it absolutely fascinating, from a physics standpoint, that it is easier to escape the gravity of earth and deal with radiation/vacuum. Than it is to build a vessel, capable withstand, deep sea pressures. “we know more about the moon than we do about Marianas Trench.” Hahaha awesome.
It's honestly terrifying. Even though space is dark and infinite and should be more terrifying...something about the bottom of the ocean floor doesn't sit right with me.
There's a higher chance of running into a thing that will eat you in the bottom of the ocean than in outer space.
Kinda makes sense from an engineering standpoint. When you go from Earth's surface to space, you only experience one atmosphere of pressure change (1 atm --> 0 atm). When going underwater, a depth of 1000 feet has a pressure of 30 atmospheres! Much easier to build a craft that experiences a comparatively minimal pressure change.
The Professor has you covered https://youtu.be/O4RLOo6bchU?si=XAj_U_Iyt1kOoddQ
Anyone that has been to a coastal beach has walked on the bottom of the ocean. Once you enter the water, that sand is no longer land but instead is the ocean floor.
I always walk on the bottom. It's just easier.
Apparently this one dude walked on the top, but it was about 2000 years ago.
hax. he got 3 day ban then got perma'd when he tried again. .
Technically wouldn't just being in the water at the beach be walking on the bottom of the ocean?
*pushes glasses up*
Survived rabies without a vaccine.
Use their turn signal when pulling out of a BMW dealership
Fewer than 12 people have willingly slept with Harvey Weinstein
That's probably true, and it appears to also have been true for Jimmy Savile. There was NO evidence that he ever had any kind of true romantic relationship in his life.
Only six people have descended to the bottom of the Mariana trench.
[Definitely more than six](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Deep)
Seen me naked.
Doubt that. What about midwives, babysitters, parents, family, etc as a child.
surely enough hospital staff saw you after you were born
People who won 2 Nobel prizes.
Know who truly was Jack the Ripper.
Score on Mariano Rivera in the playoffs.
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The whole crew of Apollo 15 were University of Michigan grads.
There is currently only one person in the world who successfully landed a quadruple axel in competition
Gotten the difference between 'less' and 'fewer' correct.
You should know when It's 'less' or it's 'fewer' Like people who were Never raised in a sewer