“What rare achievement do fewer people than moonwalkers have accomplished? 🌙 #RareAchievements #Moonwalkers #Curiosity
Have you ever wondered what’s even more exclusive than being one of the lucky few who have walked on the moon? 🤔 Only 12 individuals have had the honor of stepping foot on Earth’s natural satellite, but there are even rarer feats out there waiting to be discovered.
Explore the true meaning of achievement and discover what separates the extraordinary from the extraordinary few. Dive into the world of rare accomplishments beyond moonwalking.”
Seen me naked.
Walked on the very bottom of the ocean
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
Bear surviving octuplets.
Only 9 people have had the same heart infection I have 4 have survived.
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.
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.
Stuck part of their body into a particle accelerator and survived (2 that I know of)
Had sex with me.
Orbited the moon alone.
Played Tetris for the NES all the way to the kill screen
Only three people have died *in space* as a consequence of decompression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents#:~:text=%2Fcosmonaut“).-,During%20spaceflight,the%20entire%20crew%20was%20killed.
Run the marathon distance in under 2 hours: 1 person
Survived both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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.
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
Swam the length of the Amazon, Danube, Mississippi and Yankze Rivers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Strel#:~:text=Strel%20holds%20successive%20Guinness%20World,%2C%20friendship%20and%20clean%20waters.%22
Played the character James Bond.
Hit two grand slams in one inning of an MLB game. Fernando Tatis is the only one.
Have served as president of the US more than twice
Only six people have descended to the bottom of the Mariana trench.
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
Having been born in Antarctica
Violet Jessup. Survived all three White Star ocean liner sinkings. The Titanic, the Olympic, and the Britannic
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.
Sir David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for a programme in black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K
Walked between the World Trade Center towers on a tightrope. Only one person ever did that.