Chinese man has eaten 1,500 light bulbs

Liew Thow Lin: the real-life magnetic man

Submitted by Da Verminator: Liew Thow Lin is known as the "Magnetic Man" of Malaysia, because of his incredible ability to stick metal objects to his body. After a deep medical study, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) lecturer Nasrul Humaimi Mahmood said this ability was probably associated with "suction properties in his skin." Professor Dr. Mohamed Amin Alias, from UTM"s electrical engineering faculty in Johor, agreed. After seeing Liewperform, the professor did research on the matter, and d...

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Man with half a body defies the odds

Kenny Easterday was born with only half a body due to a rare medical condition and walks around on his hands.Despite his disability Kenny is able to lead a relatively normal life including playing sport and finding love despite refusing a weelchair or any kind of prosthetics in favour of getting around as he is usingonly his hands. Despite only having half a body, Kenny Easterday insists he can live the life of a normal man. Now he appears to haveproved it after claiming he has fathere...

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Superhuman: secrets of the ice man

Lewis Gordon Pugh has raised eyebrows and made headline news around the world for his spectacular feats and remarkable resilience to the cold. Over 20 years Pugh has taken part in 17 long distance swims, including a 21 day slog along Sognefjord in Norway. But how does his body manage to endure such extreme cold ?"Perched on the edge of an Antarctic ice sheet, Lewis Gordon Pugh surveys the waves. At 0 °C, water does not get...

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Immortality

When we look at our lives we often ask, What is real? Is the soul real, is our body real? The answer is both. Our soul is and always has been immortal. The soul lives on with our without a physical body. The soul is the part of us that is the spark of the Creator. The living soul is the continuity of life with or without a body. The fact is that there is never death for the soul. More than an having an eternal soul, is it possible to have an immortal physical body? Many thousands o...

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Girl laughs for 12 years

A Chinese couple are desperately seeking a cure for their daughter who has been laughing non-stop for 12 years. The mother, Yang Longying, of Chongqing, says it started when her second child, Xu Pinghui,had a fever when she was just eight months old."Ever since then, she has been laughing uncontrollably," she told theChongqing Evening Post.The couple say the situation worsened when she reached two years old because she lost her ability to speak and could onlylaugh. View: Full Article | Source: ...

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Blind man regains sight through tooth

A man who was blinded 12 years ago following an accident at his workplace has regained his sight after doctors removed one of his teeth, fitted a tiny optical lens in to it and then inserted it in to his eye socket."A blinded man has seen his wife for the first time after surgeons gave him backhis sight using one of his teeth. . Martin Jones" canine was pulled out so a tiny optical lens could be fitted to it, then the toot...

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World's tallest woman dies at age 53

The world’s tallest woman, Sandy Allen, died early Wednesday morning at a nursing home in her hometown of Shelbyville, Ind. She was 53. No cause of death has been released, but a family friend said Allen had been sick for several months. She had been hospitalized for a recurring blood infection, along with diabetes, breathing troubles and kidney failure, Rita Rose said. Allen, who was 7-foot-7, is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest living woman, and has appeared in the p...

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One gene keeps us either male or female

Scientists have found that the body is in a constant fight to stay biologically male or female and that if one single gene is suppressed it can be enough to flip from one to the other. "Women and men are constantly battling to suppresstheir masculine andfeminine sides - at least biologically, claim scientists. . Researchers have found that the body is in a constant fight to remain either female or male and the suppression of ...

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Woman swallows 78 items of cutlery

A 52-year-old woman with an obsession for swallowing cutlery had to undergo an operation after she consumed a whopping 78 spoons and forks, when asked about her condition she told doctors that she couldn"thelp herself."A woman obsessed with swallowing spoons and forks wasforced to have an operation after she ate an entire canteen of cutlery. . Surgeons in Rotterdam, Holland, removed 78 different items of cutlery from Margaret D...

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Doctors remove worlds largest malignant tumour

Doctors in Argentina have removed the world"s largest tumour weighing almost 4 stone from a patient.The massive growth was removed from a woman"s womb during an operation that lasted four hours, it was the equivalent of the weight of a four-year-old boy and had been there for over 18 months. Doctors have removed a tumourweighing nearly four stone from a woman in Argentina. It had been growing inside her body for 18 months. Thehuge three stone 8. . 7lbs growth was taken out of the 54-ye...

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