People with incredible abilities, talents that seem

out of this world, skills that are extraordinary and

guts far above human prowess. Here are some

real life superheroes with astounding faculties..

• Daniel Paul Tammet is a British autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Tammet holds the European record for memorizing and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours. He also speaks English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. Tammet is creating a new language called Mänti. Tammet learned Icelandic in just one week.

• Ben Underwood is blind; both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn't even need hands: he uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back from objects. He's the only person in the world who sees using nothing but eco location, like a sonar or a dolphin.

The boy who sees without actually “seeing”

(the rubberboy)• Five time Guiness

Record holder, The Rubberboy is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist. He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics.

Rathakrishnan Velu broke his own world

record for pulling train with his teeth, this time with 6 coaches attached

weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8

metres at the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Raja Gigi, from Tampin in Malaysia learned a

technique of concentrating his powers

to any part of his body from an Indian guru at a

young age of 14.

KING TOOTH

The Magnetic Man• A 70-year-old retired

contractor in Malaysia, recently made news for pulling a car by means of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects stick "magnetically" to his skin, and now he's added car-pulling to his repertoire. Since this "gift'' is also present in three of his sons and two grandchildren, he figures it's hereditary.

• Ngoc could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has not slept for more than 11,700 consecutive nights. Proving his health, he said, he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. Ngoc often guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.

The Man Who Doesn’t Sleep

• Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win the hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. He can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of being attacked. Lions are his favourites and its a wonder how he can play, carress, cuddle with them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel. Its a dangerous job but to Kevin, its more of a passion for him.