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MISTER EAT-IT-ALL (Michel Lotito)

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Michel Lotito was born in 1950. He is a French entertainer, famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-All). Lotito’s performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed.  The aircraft took  two years to be ‘eaten’ from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966. Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the ‘meal’.  He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are, allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a...

THE RUBBERBOY (Daniel Browning Smith)

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He is Five time Guiness Record holder. The Rubberboy is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist. He has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN’s Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show Period, The Discovery Channel, Men in Black 2, HBO’s Carnivale, and CSI : NY and American got a talent. He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics.

THE BOY WITH SONAR VISION (Ben Underwood)

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Ben Underwood is blind. Both of his eyes were removed because of when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life. He teached 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. Amazingly, his ears pick up the echos to let him know where the objects are. He’s the only person in the world who sees using nothing but echo location, like a sonar or a dolphin.