It’s never easy to come to terms with your own mortality. In fact, many people decide to completely ignore the fact that they won’t live forever. After all, there's not much we can do about it! But if you happen to have an experience where you come close to losing your life, you’ll never ever take it for granted again.
Threads users have recently been sharing stories of people who miraculously survived life-threatening situations, so we’ve gathered some of the craziest ones below. We’ll warn you right now, pandas, that some of these tales are not easy to read. But we hope they’ll remind you just how resilient humans are and inspire you to live every day to the fullest!
#41
Nikola Tesla liked to stick his head in strong electromagnetic fields and, for several months in 1895-96, did so regularly with the X-ray discharge from a Crookes tube.
He maintained that it made him smarter. But in fact he became increasingly deranged and delusional after 1896, and basically never worked productively again.
One of Tesla's many, many deranged ideas was to secretly bombard classes of "defective" children with strong high frequency EMF to "quicken" their minds. This was in 1912.
He maintained that it made him smarter. But in fact he became increasingly deranged and delusional after 1896, and basically never worked productively again.
One of Tesla's many, many deranged ideas was to secretly bombard classes of "defective" children with strong high frequency EMF to "quicken" their minds. This was in 1912.
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13points
#42
Henry Hall, the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper, during a fire accidentally ingested 200g of liquified lead and survived for six days, he was so well that the doctor thought he faked it, but they found the solidified lead inside of him during the autopsy (the slab is now in a museum).
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12points
#43
Roy Benavidez was shot multiple times, stabbed, and declared dead only to spit on the medic to show he was alive.
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12points
#44
Also Joe Simpson who survived the rope being cut by his climbing partner (Touching the Void)
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12points
#45
William Rankin is the only known person to survive a fall through a cumulonimbus cloud.
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11points
#46
A child from Texas was diagnosed with DIPG and is the only one that I’ve read about surviving it.
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10points
#47
Jeanne Calment reached 122 years old when she was an active smoker even beyond 100 years old...normally smokers have a shorter lifespan yet she's the oldest documented person ever lived...
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9points
#48
Loren Schauers, an American man, had a hemicorporectomy in 2019 after a traumatic forklift accident.
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8points
#49
Wenceslao Moguel Herrera. He was “executed” by fring squad of nine rifleman and lastly shot in the head by an officer. He refused to die, and kept living.
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5points
