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# 8 Ufot Ekong\r
Ufot Ekong is a Nigerian student who studied at Tokai University in Tokyo. While he is definitely part of a minority group in the universitys student body, what really makes him outstanding is that during his first semester of schooling he solved a math puzzle that was thought unsolvable for 30 years. On top of that, he worked two jobs to get him through school and earned the highest grades at Tokai University since 1965. \r
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# 7 Richard Hansen\r
Richard Hansen is a Canadian Paralympian who circumnavigated the world to spread awareness for spinal cord injuries. Over the course of 26 months, Hansen would travel more than 40,000 kilometers or nearly 25,000 miles through 34 countries on four continents. His race across the globe raised $26 million US for spinal cord research. \r
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# 6 Zero Freitas\r
Music enthusiasts might be excited to hear about Zero Freitas, a very wealthy Brazilian Businessman who owns what is probably the largest collection of vinyl records on Earth. He owns several million vinyls including Paul Mawhinneys former collection which included 3 million LPs. He has a team of international scouts, scattered across the globe looking for increasingly rarer and rare records. He is also on a mission to digitize all of the records and even open a museum for people to access the records. \r
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# 5 Georgi Readman\r
Georgi Readman is from Isle of Wight County in Virginia and first tried instant ramen noodles when she was just five years old. Since then, she has exclusively eaten ramen noodles for more than 10 years. By her own estimates, she says she eats more than 30 miles of noodles every year and refuses to eat other food as it makes her feel ill. This has contributed to her height of 53” and weight of less than 100 pounds. According to medical experts, she is critically malnourished and has the health of an 80-year-old. \r
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# 4 Connie Chiu\r
Connie Chiu was born as the fourth child to a family in Hong Kong and was the only one born with a striking albinism that made her stick out. She and her family eventually moved to Sweden where she would eventually start her modeling career working with Jean-Paul Gaultier. On top of all of this, she also works as a jazz singer, balancing her modeling career with her singing career. \r
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# 3 Khoudia Diop\r
This 19-year-old from Senegal was bullied for her whole life for her skin tone. Her name is Khoudia Diop, and as you can tell, she has a very rich and dark skin tone that is ripe for bullying by those who are unaccepting. However, she began working with a group called The Coloured Girl Inc. and has since gained major positive popularity on the internet showing all her bullies what makes her different and strange is also what makes her amazing.\r
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# 2 Emmanuel Tangco\r
To honor the year of the Snake in new, zookeeper Emmanuel Tangco began to welcome eight pythons into every intimate part of his life. He owns the Malabon Zoo located in the Philippines and garnered international attention when photos of nearly a dozen huge pythons slithering over his body went viral. He was seen reading a book with Burmese pythons crawling over him and even does public displays at the zoo covered in this slithery friends. \r
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# 1 Zhou Zhou\r
Zhou Zhou is a Chinese man born on April 1st, 1979 in Wuhan, China. His IQ is reportedly 30% of the average person, and he does not understand how old he. He also cannot read music, but that hasnt stopped him from becoming a conductor of the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra. He gained an inherent understanding of music and orchestral conducting from his father, who was a cellist in the same orchestra.