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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
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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.
#4
Survived both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
#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 1 year ago
Regardless of whether you vote red or blue or whether you believe it's a "witch hunt" or not this is still true.
#9
Folded a fitted sheet .
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I believe we landed on the moon, but I'm sure that all fitted sheet foldings have been faked by Stanley Kubrick.
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Pam 1 year ago
Actually, i can properly do that. Worked as a maid in a tiny sea side hotel from age 12 to 14 and learned there on king and queen sheets. I can do them all by myself!
rullyman 1 year ago
I can do it fairly well. My husband always tries, fails, hands it over, and accuses me of black magic
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Robin DJW 1 year ago
My mother taught me and I taught my children. It's not hard, but the end product is a bit bulkier than a folded flat sheet. It's not rocket science, folks.
Mike F 1 year ago
The hell you say! My (admittedly newer) fitted sheets have the elastic all the way around. They are an absolute nightmare to try and fold.
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Kristen Veader 1 year ago
That was one of the skills I chose to master during covid lockdown. I'm still not sure it's worth the time and effort and I am tempted to wapse (I could swear this is a word?) it into a ball EVERY SINGLE TIME.
THE BLACK WOLF STRIKES AGAIN 1 year ago
It becomes easier over time. For example, I can do it with one hand.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
These roadside sobriety tests are getting ridiculous. Tonight I had to fold a fitted sheet.
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
What do you mean, y'all don't fold them? Then how do you store them?
Aussiegirl 1 year ago
Like this, not folded neatly, pic off google I’m too lazy to get out of bed & go to my linen cupboard to take a pic IMG_0085-6...9-jpeg.jpg 
Taco doggo 1 year ago (edited)
My husband can. It blows my mind every single time because you would think it was just a normal top sheet with no elastic. I've tried & always fail lol
Hyppymom the Only 1 year ago
This is something I CAN do. I've been accused of being a witch because of the ability. 😆 I'm just kinda old-ish, from back in the days when my mom ironed the line-dried sheets and they smelled like sunshine!
Isabel Galvez 1 year ago
I learned how to do it from an old lady whose job had been precisely that. But I never do it. 😆
marianne eliza 1 year ago
One of my parents former caregivers could fold a king-size fitted sheet quickly and smoothly. I had her show me once but I can't do it.
Renee Prete 1 year ago
I do that every time I wash my sheets. AND.... put them back into the plastic bag that they came in
Sue Mullen Andersen 1 year ago
This made me laugh so much. My mother taught all of her children how to fold them. However, I think all that work is rather pointless and don't do it. My sister was aghast when she saw I didn't fold my sheets "properly" on a visit. As soon as she was done folding all of them I refolded them. As her little sister I could not let her get away with that!
Olga Sushko 1 year ago
https://youtu.be/ckTCocBCUN4?si=71Pa_apMfsyuVqMj 😉
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Squiffle Noses 1 year ago
WOW! I've seen a house fly... and I've seen a horse fly.. but I ain't never seen a fitted sheet conform to to human requirements!
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
I don't know if there is a "correct" way to do this, so of course I don't know what it is. I do fold mine, and then fold the flat sheet around it in a way that keeps them bundled together in the closet.
Angrykitten 1 year ago
Fold both, then put them in the pillow case. Creates a little change the bed package! They fit nicely attacked on the shelf. I have 4 "sets" like this fits great on a shelf in linen closet
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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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It came through her roof as she was sleeping, bounced off her radio shattering it and fell on her belly, waking her up
#14
Orbited the moon alone.
#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 1 year 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.
#19
Played Tetris for the NES all the way to the end screen.
#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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago (edited)
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!
#31
Only 9 people have had the same heart infection I have 4 have survived.
#32
Only six people have descended to the bottom of the Mariana trench.
David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
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)".
#33
There is currently only one person in the world who successfully landed a quadruple axel in competition.
#35
People who won 2 Nobel prizes.
Lene 1 year ago
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 💚💚
#36
Stuck part of their body into a particle accelerator and survived (2 that I know of).
#37
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.
#38
The same number of people, 12, have hiked the entire length of the Grand Canyon in one continuous push.
#39
Have served as president of the US more than twice.
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
Considering the law was changed after Roosevelt’s term office, this record is unlikely to be ever broken again.
#41
Only one guy has ever tried to take his hockey skate off and stab someone with it.
#43
Walked on the very bottom of the ocean.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Well, technically the shore is the bottom of the ocean in that place, so...
#44
Beat Michael Jordan in the NBA finals.
What do you think ?
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 year ago
Omg I love this I hate that both series are over! (YS and TBBT)
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Me. 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Gave a thumbs up to an article about Kanye's wife showing off her nipples.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Everyone listed in Guinness book of world records qualifies for this list.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
You know it's rare when you have to explain it to doctor.
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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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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🫶 1 year ago
Omg I love this I hate that both series are over! (YS and TBBT)
Load More Replies... Me. 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Gave a thumbs up to an article about Kanye's wife showing off her nipples.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Everyone listed in Guinness book of world records qualifies for this list.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
You know it's rare when you have to explain it to doctor.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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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