It's no optical illusion - Feng Hu really is clenching a steel nail with his eyelid and swinging weights from it.
Kung Fu master Feng - from Luoyang, Henan province, central China - began staging his shows after decades of studying pain control techniques as part of his kung fu training...
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As master magician Harry Houdini's 137th birthday is celebrated with some Link Removed, we take a look back at his most famous tricks, from the Chinese Water Torture Cell to hanging upside down in a straitjacket and breaking free.
Milk Can Escape
It takes a brave man to be handcuffed...
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Boozed-up British tourists have to watch where they walk in Alicante after a new patterned pavement has been laid causing nausea and confusion.
The crazy design in the Spanish holiday resort causes the eye to think that the pavement is not flat but stepped.
Set in rows of diamonds at...
Cari Nierenberg writes: If two hands are better than one, then imagine what you could do with three. In a new study, Swedish researchers were able to trick participants' brains into believing their body had an extra arm.
Brain scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm conducted...
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