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“Only 12 People Have Walked On The Moon. What’s Something That Less People Have Done?” (30 Stories)
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
Read the terms and conditions before clicking 'I agree'.
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#2
Fixed the leak at Chernobyl, saved the water table for Western Europe. Three guys wearing taped up garbage bags.
#3
Sir David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for a programme in black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.
#5
Use their turn signal when pulling out of a BMW dealership.
#6
Violet Jessup. Survived all three White Star ocean liner sinkings. The Titanic, the Olympic, and the Britannic.
#7
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.
#8
Stood trial as an ex President of the US.
April Hodakowski 7 months ago
Regardless of whether you vote red or blue or whether you believe it's a "witch hunt" or not this is still true.
#10
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.
#11
Perished in a carbon fiber submarine with a video game controller as the method of controlling the submarine.
#12
Having been born in Antarctica .
Teutonic Disaster 7 months ago
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?!
#13
Been hit by a meteorite. Just one - Ann Hodges.
Zedrapazia 7 months ago
It came through her roof as she was sleeping, bounced off her radio shattering it and fell on her belly, waking her up
#15
Walked between the World Trade Center towers on a tightrope. Only one person ever did that.
#16
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.
General Anaesthesia 7 months ago (edited)
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.
#17
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.
#18
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.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 7 months ago
Wow congrats your country’s people are good at running. Is it because of all the time they spend running away from acknowledging how terrible the government is?
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Jack Burton 7 months ago
Flo griffith joyner... poor woman full of doppibg products and died way too soon. There is no way she was clean...
Foxglove🇮🇪 7 months ago
Also, Rhasidat Adeleke is the first Irish woman to break 50 seconds in the 400m (and she's still only 21)
Binky Melnik 6 months ago (edited)
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price seems also to be hoarding names; I predict there’s a remarriage in her future, likely to someone with a named like Jonathan Widdicombe-Pennyworth. I expect to see her on another list about people with an excessive number of names.
Robin Roper 7 months ago
Pistol Pete Maravich is the all-time leading NCAA Division I men's scorer with 3,667 points scored and an average of 44.2 points per game. All of his accomplishments were achieved before the adoption of the three-point line and shot clock, and despite being unable to play varsity as a freshman under then-NCAA rules.
Omni Unicorn 7 months ago
This isn't anything to get annoyed about. Only 3 people have done it in under 9.70 seconds--there's no need to specify more. For the 10.70 second mark, more specification is needed because many men have raced under that time.
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Played Tetris for the NES all the way to the end screen.
#20
Fewer than 12 people have willingly slept with Harvey Weinstein.
#21
Solved a Millennium Prize Problem. Only one person, Grigori Perelman, and he turned down the money.
#22
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.
#24
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.
David Paterson 7 months ago
From the web "As of January 2023, there have been 30 well-documented rabies survivors”, most of them from India.
#25
More people have walked on the moon than winning on Takeshi’s Castle.
#26
Only three people have died *in space* as a consequence of decompression.
martin734 7 months ago
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.
#27
Hit two grand slams in one inning of an MLB game. Fernando Tatis is the only one.
unfilteredCigarette73 7 months ago (edited)
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
#28
Underwater backflip while sword swallowing. So far I think only one person holds that record.
#29
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.
#30
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.
What do you think ?
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 6 months ago
Omg I love this I hate that both series are over! (YS and TBBT)
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Me. 7 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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ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago
I'm going to add one. There is only one Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade: Surya Bonaly If you're not familiar she is an incredible athlete!
Justin Tyme 7 months ago
I have gotten stuck in two malfunctioning elevators. The chance of that happening is one in ten billion. (Out of every ten billion elevator rides that occur, statistically, the same person will get stuck in an elevator in two of those rides).
ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago
Was it the same elevator? I know someone who got trapped in the same elevator twice, about 9 months apart, which doesn't seem to me as rare as say two different elevators. He was diabetic and sued after the second time.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 7 months ago
Gave a thumbs up to an article about Kanye's wife showing off her nipples.
Steve Hall 7 months ago
Everyone listed in Guinness book of world records qualifies for this list.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 7 months ago
The most current Guinness book of world records or all of them in the history of Guinness books of world record?
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Julia Nolan 7 months ago
Not sure if it's under 12, but I'm one of very few people to have fluid leak from my knee and solidify beneath the muscle in my shin. Doctors regularly are like, "Can that happen?" when I tell it to them, at which point I have to explain that I was like the second one (when I had surgery to remove the lump) that the surgeon doing the operation had even heard of. (Which doesn't mean there aren't more - just that it's pretty rare.)
ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago
You know it's rare when you have to explain it to doctor.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago (edited)
Adding another one: Only person ever to win Western States 100, Hardrock 100 and the UTMB, three iconic 100-mile races, in the same year. Courtney Dauwalter Another amazing athlete. She's come in second in races against men, e.g. Tahoe 200 in 2018. She also won the Moab 240 Outright, by more than ten hours, in 2017, against men and women.
T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
Lewis Pugh (a Brit who lives in South Africa) is the only person (and was the first person) to swim in all the world's oceans.
Louisa Spoke 7 months ago
I got my year two teacher and primary school headmistress sacked. My teacher beat my hands so much I couldn’t hold a pencil and was found out. She was beating me to make me stronger.
Ann Mohrmann 7 months ago
Per Wikipedia: Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome (MPL)...As of 2016, fewer than 10 cases of the condition have been reported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Vel%c3%a1squez is a motivational speaker that talks about this condition affected her life.
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 6 months ago
Omg I love this I hate that both series are over! (YS and TBBT)
Load More Replies... Me. 7 months ago
Legally, 1 person has. She was hung and legally considered dead, even though in the end it was not fatal
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago
I'm going to add one. There is only one Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade: Surya Bonaly If you're not familiar she is an incredible athlete!
Justin Tyme 7 months ago
I have gotten stuck in two malfunctioning elevators. The chance of that happening is one in ten billion. (Out of every ten billion elevator rides that occur, statistically, the same person will get stuck in an elevator in two of those rides).
ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago
Was it the same elevator? I know someone who got trapped in the same elevator twice, about 9 months apart, which doesn't seem to me as rare as say two different elevators. He was diabetic and sued after the second time.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 7 months ago
Gave a thumbs up to an article about Kanye's wife showing off her nipples.
Steve Hall 7 months ago
Everyone listed in Guinness book of world records qualifies for this list.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 7 months ago
The most current Guinness book of world records or all of them in the history of Guinness books of world record?
Load More Replies... Julia Nolan 7 months ago
Not sure if it's under 12, but I'm one of very few people to have fluid leak from my knee and solidify beneath the muscle in my shin. Doctors regularly are like, "Can that happen?" when I tell it to them, at which point I have to explain that I was like the second one (when I had surgery to remove the lump) that the surgeon doing the operation had even heard of. (Which doesn't mean there aren't more - just that it's pretty rare.)
ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago
You know it's rare when you have to explain it to doctor.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 7 months ago (edited)
Adding another one: Only person ever to win Western States 100, Hardrock 100 and the UTMB, three iconic 100-mile races, in the same year. Courtney Dauwalter Another amazing athlete. She's come in second in races against men, e.g. Tahoe 200 in 2018. She also won the Moab 240 Outright, by more than ten hours, in 2017, against men and women.
T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
Lewis Pugh (a Brit who lives in South Africa) is the only person (and was the first person) to swim in all the world's oceans.
Louisa Spoke 7 months ago
I got my year two teacher and primary school headmistress sacked. My teacher beat my hands so much I couldn’t hold a pencil and was found out. She was beating me to make me stronger.
Ann Mohrmann 7 months ago
Per Wikipedia: Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome (MPL)...As of 2016, fewer than 10 cases of the condition have been reported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Vel%c3%a1squez is a motivational speaker that talks about this condition affected her life.
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