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Humans are capable of incredible things. If we put our bodies and minds to the test, we can not only surpass our own expectations but also push what we consider to be the limit of our species. Just tune in to the Olympic Games this summer and count the times you will hear the phrase "It's never been done before!" Wishing to explore this topic further, Reddit user Anonburrsir asked everyone on the platform to list the feats that fewer people have done than walk on the moon (which twelve can brag about). Here are the most interesting answers from the 4.3K comments their post has received.

#1

"Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Read the terms and conditions before clicking 'I agree'.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Fixed the leak at Chernobyl, saved the water table for  Western Europe. Three guys wearing taped up garbage bags.  

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    Emma S
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Miraculously all three survived. Two are still alive and one died from a heart condition in 2005.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Sir David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for a programme in black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.

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    #4

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Survived both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    Use their turn signal when pulling out of a BMW dealership.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Violet Jessup. Survived all three White Star ocean liner sinkings. The Titanic, the Olympic, and the Britannic.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    #8

    Stood trial as an ex President of the US.

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    April Hodakowski
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Regardless of whether you vote red or blue or whether you believe it's a "witch hunt" or not this is still true.

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    Folded a fitted sheet .

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    #11

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Perished in a carbon fiber submarine with a video game controller as the method of controlling the submarine.

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    #12

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Having been born in Antarctica ​​​​.

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    Teutonic Disaster
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No offense, because often enough the baby's gonna come when its gonna come, but who in their right mind travels to ANTARCTICA all kinds of pregnant?!

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Been hit by a meteorite. Just one - Ann Hodges.

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    Zedrapazia
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It came through her roof as she was sleeping, bounced off her radio shattering it and fell on her belly, waking her up

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Walked between the World Trade Center towers on a tightrope. Only one person ever did that.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    General Anaesthesia
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh come on, scrape Reddit and paste, BP. Low earth orbit is only between 160 and 2.000 kilometers. So Ms. Murray didn't fall 4400 kilometers(!) but 4400 meters, 14,500 feet.

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    #17

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    #18

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Ran 100 meters in under 9.70 seconds (only 3 people have done this). Similarly run 100 meters in under 10.70 seconds for woman (only 7 woman have done this).

    Shout out to:

    - Usain Bolt
    - Tyson Gay
    - Yohan Blake
    - Florence Griffith-Joyner
    - Elaine Thompson-Herah
    - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
    - Carmelita Jeter
    - Marion Jones
    - Shericka Jackson
    - Sha’Carri Richardson.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Played Tetris for the NES all the way to the end screen.

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    Fewer than 12 people have willingly slept with Harvey Weinstein.

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    #21

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Solved a Millennium Prize Problem. Only one person, Grigori Perelman, and he turned down the money.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    #23

    Winning a horse race whilst dead
    Just one person.

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    #24

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    David Paterson
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From the web "As of January 2023, there have been 30 well-documented rabies survivors”, most of them from India.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) More people have walked on the moon than winning on Takeshi’s Castle.

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    #26

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Only three people have died *in space* as a consequence of decompression.

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    martin734
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is actually less than on Earth. In 1983 on the oil rig Byford Dolphin, four divers were killed by explosive decompression when their decompression chamber was mistakenly opened and instantaneously depressurised from 9 atmospheres (130 psi). Dozens of divers around the world die evry year from decompression sickness.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Hit two grand slams in one inning of an MLB game. Fernando Tatis is the only one.

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    unfilteredCigarette73
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thats a lucky feat only accomplished because other players also got on base before him...four players two times in a row...baseball is awesome

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Underwater backflip while sword swallowing. So far I think only one person holds that record.

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    #29

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    Fat Harry
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the US triple crown. The original triple crown is the combination of the Epsom Derby, the 2000 Guineas, and the St Ledger. I have no idea how many people have trained a horse that's won that triple crown. Other countries also have a triple crown.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) 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.

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    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel that the extreme height doesn't make much difference - falling "belly-to-earth" a person teaches terminal velocity after about 450m, so surely anyone falling from above this height is just as lucky to survive as anyone else above this height. Vesna just had the longest time to contemplate that they (not he - thank you Pedantic Panda) might not survive!

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    #31

    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Only 9 people have had the same heart infection I have 4 have survived.

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    #32

    Only six people have descended to the bottom of the Mariana trench.

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    David Paterson
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Six? I thought it was four. Wow, I'm so out of date. In addition to these four: "As of 2022, 22 crewed descents have been achieved." "Victor Vescovo achieved a new record descent on 28 April 2019 using the DSV Limiting Factor, a Triton 36000/2 model manufactured in Florida". "On 10 November 2020, the bottom of the Challenger Deep was reached by three Chinese scientists (Zhang Wei, Zhao Yang, and W**g Zhiqiang)".

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    There is currently only one person in the world who successfully landed a quadruple axel in competition.

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Run the marathon distance in under 2 hours: 1 person.

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    People who won 2 Nobel prizes.

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    Lene
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Frederick sanger (biochemist, worked on diabetes and something with DNA), Linus Pauling (one in chemistry and one peace prize), John Bardeen (both were in physics) and Marie Curie/Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (in physics and in chemistry). According to the internet. 😁 I don't know much about these ppl but I suspect they were all awesome nerds 💚💚

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Stuck part of their body into a particle accelerator and survived (2 that I know of).

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Only two people have ever flown the 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.

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    Jeremy James
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And statistically MUCH safer than being a Boeing whistle-blower.

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    #38

    The same number of people, 12, have hiked the entire length of the Grand Canyon in one continuous push.

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    Brenda
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Having been to the Grand Canyon, that's a truly impressive feat!

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    "Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What's Something That Less People Have Done?" (30 Stories) Have served as president of the US more than twice.

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    Daniela Lavanza
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering the law was changed after Roosevelt’s term office, this record is unlikely to be ever broken again.

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    #40

    One man swam the length of the Amazon, Danube, Mississippi and Yangtze Rivers. 

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    #41

    Only one guy has ever tried to take his hockey skate off and stab someone with it.

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    #42

    Deadlifted over 500kg.

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    Walked on the very bottom of the ocean.

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    #44

    Beat Michael Jordan in the NBA finals.

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