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One reason he was able to put away so many books is that he could read them two pages at once, one page with each eye, because apparently that's something you can do. It is claimed Peek had an eidetic memory, or photographic memory, something that people aren't even sure actually exists. However, if it does exist, Peek is probably the best case for it, reportedly being able to recall 98 percent of everything he ever experienced in perfect detail. To compare, most of us can't recall 98 percent of the previous goddamned sentence. Peek's story was also the inspiration for the film Rain Man. However, when someone asked Peek to read a book on gambling (which would have taken him about 30 minutes), he told them that using his powers for gambling would be "unethical." In your face, Hoffman. So What's Going on Here? Many assumed Peek was, like the guy in the last entry, an autistic savant, because Americans think "autism" means "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters." This wasn't the case; Peek's incredible ability is believed to have come from a congenital birth defect, which resulted in increased memory capacity. This is another way of saying he memorized fucking everything, including the 12,000 books we mentioned earlier and sports statistics spanning decades. For a given person's hometown, he could tell you all highways leading to it, the county, area code and ZIP code, television stations available in the town, the name of the local telephone provider and any notable local history. Throughout it all, Peek only wanted to share his gift with the world. His father and caretaker never accepted anything in exchange for Peek's appearances, except for the joy Kim felt when meeting other people. When Dustin Hoffman met him to research his role for Rain Man, he was quoted as saying, "I may be the star, but you are the heavens," presumably before Peek told him his future and levitated out of the room. Richard Green, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System And then stole his goddamn car. #2. Wim Hof Is Cold-Proof Wim Hof is a Dutch-born man with the incredible ability of being invulnerable to cold, which he has proven by swimming in ice cold water and being buried completely in ice. You might scoff at this, because you saw David Blaine do the same thing. OK, how about this: He climbed up Mount Everest in a goddamned pair of goddamned shorts. Tejiendo el Mundo His testicles have retracted up behind his eyelids at this point. He has been dubbed "Iceman," because the Dutch have no imagination. Hof's ability is so great that even when submerged in freezing water that would pretty much kill a normal human in a few minutes, his body temperature barely drops, and when he climbed Everest (in bicycle shorts, we really can't stress that enough), he said it was easy. So What's Going on Here? Hof himself claims that his remarkable abilities come from meditation, which sounds like total hackneyed bullshit to us, as no amount of thinking can keep your flaccid penis from fusing to a block of ice. Telegraph.uk When he stands up, it's going to sound like baseball cards in bicycle spokes. Researchers finally got curious and decided to test Hof, and amazingly, they found that he can actually control his autonomic nervous system and immune response through concentration and meditation. In case you're unclear, that means he can totally control his response to cold, just by thinking really hard. The researchers stressed that Hof is an entirely unique case, and his ability to basically control his body and the way it reacts isn't something other people can learn or do unless accidentally exposed to gamma rays or a radioactive comet. KiwiYogi Awww, cheater! He's wearing sandals. #1. Isao Machii Lives in the Matrix Isao Machii is a Japanese man with superhuman reflexes, which he stereotypically uses to do all sorts of amazing tricks with a katana, including peeling an apple and cutting an Airsoft pellet in half in midair. Gigazine JAPAAAAAAAAN! The following video is from a show that is very, very Japanese, but it showcases many of Machii's abilities quite well: [EMBED] Here's the uncanny thing to consider -- Airsoft pellets travel at roughly 160 feet per second. That's too fast for the human eye to even register, let alone pinpoint in order to bisect with a goddamn sword. So What's Going on Here? Machii isn't seeing the pellet with his eyes: He's sensing it in some other way. Here's what clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula has to say about him: "This is about processing at an entirely different sensory level, because he's not visually processing this. This is a different level of anticipatory processing ..." Youtube "It's also a different level of salad preparation." We can all sort of do this, obviously -- catching a ball when somebody throws it to you requires you to anticipate where it's going. A baseball player, with practice, gets so good at it that he can hit a fastball coming in at 90 mph. But he's still doing it by sight -- years of practice have taught him that the trajectory of the ball can be predicted by how it looks leaving the pitcher's hand. The difference is that Machii's brain is wired so that he can hit things that are moving too fast to see. According to the expert up there, Machii isn't even sensing the pellet at all. He's anticipating where it will be and when it will be there. That basically makes him a Jedi. Karl has Facebook and a blog and of course Twitter. Kier also has a blog that you can find right here. 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[IMG] giovannisorta 02/07/12 02:54 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 I cant see the video but seeing as it's "very, very Japanese" I presume he's slicing a sub sonic wasabi kit kat thrown by a tentacle made out of used school girl underwear while standing in an ultra high tech toilet. Reply Replying to giovannisorta _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 2. [IMG] yellowbooze 02/07/12 02:52 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 the kid with night vision eyes should also be included in the list Reply Replying to yellowbooze _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 3. [IMG] iAmHilarious 02/07/12 02:50 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 did anybody else watch the clip of Machii? cause at the end, around the 7 minute mark, those people look like he's about to cut a living baby in half while its mother watches, then he eviscerates her, when he's just cutting an iron rod in half. im not joking or exaggerating, some of these women look like they're gonna have to have zanax prescribed to them after this show was filmed. f*****g Japanese people man, only they could take tentacled monsters f*****g junior high school american looking girls and make it acceptable and then look so goddamned terrified over a man with a sword cutting iron. Granted, if i saw him walking any where near me with a sword i would immediately bow down and become his bondsman for life if he would have me, lest he cut me in half with his mighty blade. that dude could probably take your head off with a butter knife if he wanted. ok im done Reply Replying to iAmHilarious _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 4. [IMG] Mtieleman 02/07/12 02:49 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 If you combine them all together you get a tireless jedi warrior that can shoot lightning, is immune to cold and remembers everything. quite awesome indeed Reply Replying to Mtieleman _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 5. [IMG] buryyourdraws 02/07/12 02:02 AM * +1 * 2 * 0 best line from the Japanese video: "I want him to cut various things." Reply Replying to buryyourdraws _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 6. [IMG] digthatfunk 02/07/12 01:54 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 So, Kim Peek definitely looks like Michael Moore. Only of course, Moore isn't quite as handsome. Reply Replying to digthatfunk _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 7. [IMG] manleyart 02/07/12 01:37 AM * 0 * 1 * 1 Also, too bad John Belushi is dead. He could play the samurai guy in a movie. Reply Replying to manleyart _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 8. [IMG] manleyart 02/07/12 01:35 AM * +1 * 1 * 0 You know what this group is missing? A muthafuckin black guy with a muthafuckin eyepatch who runs a muthafuckin secret government agency. I wonder what we should call this team? Reply Replying to manleyart _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] buryyourdraws 02/07/12 02:04 AM * +2 * 2 * 0 The Goonies 9. [IMG] Enlil 02/07/12 01:16 AM * +2 * 2 * 0 That samurai is my hero. Reply Replying to Enlil _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 10. [IMG] misterinpain 02/07/12 01:15 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 Miss Temple Grandin can talk to animals. Reply Replying to misterinpain _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] damo1234 02/07/12 02:10 AM * +2 * 2 * 0 Oh that's easy, I do it all the time. Communication, on the other hand... 11. [IMG] Enlil 02/07/12 12:47 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 I read about Stephen Wiltshire in a book years ago called "An Anthropologist on Mars". Completely insane book. Really amazing. Reply Replying to Enlil _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] anzobanzo 02/07/12 12:53 AM * +8 * 8 * 0 Was this anthropologist named Ziggy Stardust? 2. [IMG] Enlil 02/07/12 01:17 AM * +3 * 3 * 0 A commendable response. I salute you. 12. [IMG] MrBunny 02/07/12 12:20 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 The 1st step towards mutant registry. tsk tsk Reply Replying to MrBunny _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] Jedijax 02/07/12 12:38 AM * +3 * 3 * 0 We should brand them with a big M on their faces. 2. [IMG] MrBunny 02/07/12 12:53 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 Heh, cute. I imagine in the wake of things like YouTube, we'll see more and more of these genetic/environmental anomalies take shape...and more and more ppl get nervous for it. 13. [IMG] Brainiacazoid 02/07/12 12:11 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 #4 and #2 I had heard of before. Reply Replying to Brainiacazoid _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 14. [IMG] Nrai 02/07/12 12:09 AM * +4 * 4 * 0 Dude, you just ripped these from the History channel show. Reply Replying to Nrai _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 15. [IMG] aimuy 02/06/12 11:48 PM * -8 * 0 * 8 645647 m i x e d ************ .C_0_M--- that's all serious dating. Millions of members with good economic condition and high quality. 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Reply Replying to VerminJerky _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 17. [IMG] TheZacula 02/06/12 10:49 PM * +13 * 14 * 1 So... Isao Machii is a real-life Jedi? Awesome. Reply Replying to TheZacula _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 18. [IMG] sharkpunch 02/06/12 10:23 PM * -4 * 3 * 7 saw it b4 on Stan Lee's Superhuhams lul Reply Replying to sharkpunch _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] EnjoyYourMeal 02/06/12 11:40 PM * -2 * 1 * 4 fa g says what? 19. [IMG] Tallminglecom 02/06/12 10:19 PM * -10 * 1 * 11 Hey guys. Invitation to Tallminglet*com . Many well educated, successful and beautiful members and no age gap there. U may also find and date young sexy lady. If you think it is good enough, you may share it to your friends, good luck! Reply Replying to Tallminglecom _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] Tanglebones 02/07/12 02:22 AM * 0 * 0 * 0 Why the hell did you guys choose "Tall Mingle" as your name when "TallMart" would be so much more 20. [IMG] tisJoefoo 02/06/12 10:08 PM * +5 * 5 * 0 Machii needs to play baseball. He could make millions. Reply Replying to tisJoefoo _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [ Submit Comment ] 1. [IMG] weirdobeardo 02/06/12 10:13 PM * +38 * 38 * 0 Cutting a baseball in half would be impressive, but it won't net him many RBIs. 2. [IMG] damo1234 02/07/12 02:12 AM * +2 * 2 * 0 "You see this pellet? This will happen to you unless you give me all the RBIs." "But..." "ALL of them." More Comments Trending Now * The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor * The 7 Most Baffling Things About Women's Clothes * 9 Ridiculous Cooking Myths You Probably Believe Friends' Recent Activity Flashback [IMG] The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You By: Alex Levinton 2,306,587 views [IMG] 7 Insane Ways Music Affects The Body (According to Science) By: Anthony Jurado 1,197,162 views [IMG] If Banner Ads Were Forced To Be Truthful... 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