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

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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.

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#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'.

Effective_One4642 , Diva Plavalaguna Report

Final score:

315points

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#2

"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.

Dorkypotato , Mads Eneqvist Report

Final score:

274points

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#3

"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.

Fortuner128 , (Mick Baker)rooster Report

Final score:

264points

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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.

SnooChipmunks126 , wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

234points

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#5

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

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Final score:

232points

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#6

"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.

midnightmare79 , HefePine23 Report

Final score:

230points

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#7

"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.

Ray661 , Tokuo Nobuhiro Report

Final score:

227points

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#8

Stood trial as an ex President of the US.

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Final score:

196points

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#9

Folded a fitted sheet .

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Final score:

195points

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#10

"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.

doublestitch , Kindel Media Report

Final score:

186points

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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.

rap7or , wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

185points

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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 .

_speakerss , Pixabay Report

Final score:

168points

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#13

"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.

themightyfoxtwo , Les Chatfield Report

Final score:

160points

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#14

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

JJohnston015 , Bruno Scramgnon Report

Final score:

146points

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#15

"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.

TurbulentAir , Discover History Report

Final score:

144points

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#16

"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.

ariella_cream , Thang Cao Report

Final score:

142points

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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.

charging_chinchilla , Tobias Aeppli Report

Final score:

131points

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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.

two100meterman , nappy Report

Final score:

131points

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#19

"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.

Cock_-n-_BallTorture , Aedrian Report

Final score:

117points

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#20

Fewer than 12 people have willingly slept with Harvey Weinstein.

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Final score:

104points

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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.

MathBelieve , JESHOOTS.com Report

Final score:

100points

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#22

"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.

Bakomusha , https://flickr.com/photos/anselmhook/1317607230/ Report

Final score:

96points

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#23

Winning a horse race whilst dead
Just one person.

Final score:

91points

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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.

darkhelmet03 , National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Report

Final score:

88points

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#25

"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.

atot806 , Black Mole Productions Report

Final score:

86points

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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.

HelpfulDeparture , Pixabay Report

Final score:

79points

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#27

"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.

optifroculon , MLB Report

Final score:

75points

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#28

"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.

LocalKangamew , Chayne Hultgren TheSpaceCowboy Report

Final score:

72points

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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.

hannahbay , Daniel Report

Final score:

70points

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#30

"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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Final score:

67points

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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.

MadameFutureWhatEver , Ali Hajiluyi Report

Final score:

25points

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#32

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

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Final score:

25points

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#33

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

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Final score:

25points

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#34

"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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Final score:

23points

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#35

People who won 2 Nobel prizes.

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Final score:

23points

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#36

"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).

Gnidlaps-94 , x70tjw Report

Final score:

22points

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#37

"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.

green_meklar , wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

20points

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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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Final score:

15points

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#39

"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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Final score:

14points

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#40

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

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Final score:

14points

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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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Final score:

13points

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#42

Deadlifted over 500kg.

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Final score:

13points

#43

Walked on the very bottom of the ocean.

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Final score:

9points

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#44

Beat Michael Jordan in the NBA finals.

Final score:

5points

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What is something that not many people have done?

Steve 6 months ago

People who sat in Sheldon’s spot

19points

Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 5 months ago

Omg I love this I hate that both series are over! (YS and TBBT)

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Travelling Stranger 6 months ago

*FEWER people

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LB 6 months ago

This bugged me!

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Cydney Golden 6 months ago

Thank you! Was just about to post that!

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Sure, why not 6 months ago

THANK YOU!!!

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MaximumKarmaSaint 6 months ago

0 people have survived death.

10points

Me. 6 months ago

Legally, 1 person has. She was hung and legally considered dead, even though in the end it was not fatal

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Steve 6 months ago

Kenny

4points

Justin Tyme 6 months ago

What about Lazarus?

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Steve 6 months ago

People who sat in Sheldon’s spot

19points

Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 5 months ago

Omg I love this I hate that both series are over! (YS and TBBT)

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Travelling Stranger 6 months ago

*FEWER people

16points

LB 6 months ago

This bugged me!

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Cydney Golden 6 months ago

Thank you! Was just about to post that!

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Sure, why not 6 months ago

THANK YOU!!!

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MaximumKarmaSaint 6 months ago

0 people have survived death.

10points

Me. 6 months ago

Legally, 1 person has. She was hung and legally considered dead, even though in the end it was not fatal

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Steve 6 months ago

Kenny

4points

Justin Tyme 6 months ago

What about Lazarus?

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