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With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, we are used
to see people with special abilities in fiction. But people with amazing
abilities actually do exist in real life; here's a list of 10 of the most
amazing of these people!
1.The Incredible Brain
(Daniel Tammet)
Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a
facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language
learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing numbers
as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail
and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he
says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can
"see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a
number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as
particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet
not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork,
particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.
Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting pi to 22,514
digits in just over five hours. He also speaks a variety of languages including
English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian,
Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is
rich in vowels. Tammet is creating a new language called Mänti. Tammet is
capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove this for the Channel
Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week. Seven
days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic, with his
Icelandic language instructor saying it was "not human."
2.
The Boy with Sonar Vision (Ben Underwood)
Ben Underwoodtaught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was
3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life.
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