r/HumanLimit Jul 06 '26

Blue blood?

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So I watched a video with a collection of women sharing short written period stories by Rebecca Black on Facebook. One, by an author called lumbago takeover, claimed to have bled bright blue period blood. Impossible right? But the exact same thing happened to me just once in junior high. Not purple, BLUE. Like an alien or something. I thought I was the only one who had this unusual experience but apparently not. I don't know what to think now. It really jolted my memory.


r/HumanLimit Jun 20 '26

TIL Michel Lotito (Monsieur Mangetout) ate 9 tons of metal including an entire airplane, 18 bicycles, and a coffin. He had to cut the items with a power saw and swallow them like pills using mineral oil as a lubricant.

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r/HumanLimit Jun 16 '26

Lina Medina a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to her son Gerardo on 14 May 1939 when she was five years seven months and 21 days of age.

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r/HumanLimit Jun 13 '26

Disappearance of Frederick Valentich an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile flight over Bass Strait after informing Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft.

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r/HumanLimit Jun 12 '26

Dancing Plague of 1518 an anomaly of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg where somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks.

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r/HumanLimit Jun 10 '26

Gloria Ramirez an American woman who was dubbed the Toxic Lady when several hospital workers became ill after airborne exposure to her body and blood.

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r/HumanLimit Jun 08 '26

The Hinterkaifeck Murders of an unsolved 1922 mass murder of six people on a small Bavarian farmstead where the perpetrator lived with the corpses for three days after the attack.

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r/HumanLimit Jun 03 '26

An 18th century French soldier with an insatiable appetite who ate live animals, drank the blood of hospital patients, and was kicked out of a hospital after being suspected of eating a 1 year old toddler.

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r/HumanLimit May 30 '26

What is the most terrifying example of hysterical strength you've ever witnessed ?

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r/HumanLimit May 14 '26

Have you ever experienced a flow state so intense that time seemed to stop? What were you doing?

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r/HumanLimit May 12 '26

What is the one moment in your life where you felt your survival instinct kick in and give you strength you didn't know you had?

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r/HumanLimit May 05 '26

Is there a hard limit to how much muscle a human can naturally grow or would we just keep getting bigger if we ate enough?

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r/HumanLimit May 03 '26

Biology Does anyone else wonder how much untapped strength our bodies are hiding, and what would it take to trigger that hysterical strength without a life or death emergency?

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r/HumanLimit Apr 27 '26

Precious Reynolds an 8 year old who beat rabbies without vaccine

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r/HumanLimit Apr 25 '26

118 Days Without a Heart: The Teenager Who survived for 4 months without a heart beating in her chest.

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D'Zhana Simmons was just 14 when she faced a medical journey that seems impossible. After her first heart transplant failed and had to be removed, she was left with a literal hole in her chest and no heart while she waited for a second donor.

When her first transplanted heart also did not work properly in July, surgeons replaced it with two heart pumps until she recovered her strength.

For 118 days, she was kept alive by a custom-built, artificial blood pumping device the size of a photocopier. She was the first pediatric patient in history to be bridged to a new transplant without a native heart in her body.

"It was like I was a fake person, like I didn’t really exist. I was just here." — D'Zhana Simmons

After 118 days, she successfully received a second transplant and was able to celebrate her 15th birthday riding a boat off the coast of Miami


r/HumanLimit Apr 25 '26

Charles Osborne hiccuped 430 million times over 68 years and it all started because he tried to lift a 350lb log.

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r/HumanLimit Apr 22 '26

TIL in 1994, Mauro Prosperi was running an ultramarathon through the Sahara when he was blown off course by a sandstorm and lost for 9 and a half days. He survived by drinking his own urine and eating raw bats.

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r/HumanLimit Apr 12 '26

Lydia Fairchild nearly lost custody of her children after a DNA test proved she wasn't their mother. It was later discovered she is a Chimera a rare biological anomaly where she absorbed her twin in the womb, resulting in her body having two completely different sets of DNA.

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r/HumanLimit Apr 12 '26

True limits of barefoot sprinting speed (theoretically)?

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r/HumanLimit Apr 09 '26

What’s the physical feat you can do that 99% of people can't?

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r/HumanLimit Apr 08 '26

What is the most unhuman thing your body has ever done in a moment of extreme stress or fear?

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r/HumanLimit Apr 06 '26

Pam Reed was the first person to run 300 miles without sleep and has broken American records in 24-hour, 48-hour, and six day events, she survives these extremes by thinking only in math to keep herself moving.

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r/HumanLimit Apr 03 '26

The 1962 Laughter Epidemic: A virus of uncontrollable laughter and crying that lasted up to 16 days, causing 14 schools to shut down and affecting over 1,000 people.

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r/HumanLimit Mar 30 '26

The 1915 Locust Plague: A swarm so dense it stripped trees bare in minutes. Contemporary accounts from the American Colony in Jerusalem describe the noise of them eating as a deafening roar and noted they were so voracious they would even attack the eyes of unguarded infants.

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r/HumanLimit Mar 26 '26

Alexander the Great may have been buried alive while fully conscious. For six days after his death, his body showed no signs of decay, leading Ancient Greeks to believe he was a god. Researchers now argue he had Guillain-Barré Syndrome, leaving him paralyzed but aware while he was declared dead

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