The world we live in, is vastly different from the world we think we live in. It’s a small world, but there is a huge variety of people living in it. And now it’s time for you to know some of these weird and wonderful people of the world.

10. Sajad Gharibi

Can you guess which Hollywood super-hero does this real life giant man relate to? Yes, the Hulk, the giant green man from Marvel movies. Sajad Gharibi is an Iranian powerlifter popularly known as the Persian Hulk.

In a very short time, this young man has gained more than 100,000 followers. He has also shown his desire to join professional wrestling. Due to his huge body of muscles, of about 386 pounds. Sajad has also declared his ambition to become a soldier for his country and start his training soon. Now that’s really a kind of super hero’s decision.

9. Tom Staniford

Tom Staniford is one of only eight people in the world to suffer from MDP syndrome. This extremely rare condition prevents his body from storing fat under the skin, and even on the soles of his feet.

Tom was born with a normal metabolism, but at the age of 12, he started losing fat around his face and body. He also has just 40 percent of the muscles of an average man, and his hearing is also compromised due to this condition, so he is forced to use hearing aids.

It’s a cruel irony that he has also developed Type 2 diabetes, because the fat levels in his blood are just as high as someone who is clinically obese. However, he has never let his condition hold him back. And has already proved that it is possible to live a normal life, and he even has a girlfriend named Alice, who believes he’s just a normal guy. The law graduate has already been crowned the British National Para-Cycling Circuit Race Champion in 2011.

8. Broc Brown

This kid from Michigan is an exception with a height of 7 feet 8 inches, Broc Brown is the world’s tallest teenager at the age of 18 and he’s still growing at the rate of six inches per year. Doctor’s estimate that if he continues to grow at this speed, he could easily surpass the current world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen, who stands at 8 feet 2 inches.

Broc’s feet measures to the size of 28 and is known to wear the World’s Biggest 3-D Printed Shoes. He has really high expenses for himself due to his tall height. And sometimes even suffers from painful curvature of his spine and narrowing of his spinal cord. Her mother Darci says, Broc was around 5 feet 2 inches tall when he was in kindergarten.

7. Michele Kobke

For most of us, a tiny waist is the product of a careful diet and plenty of exercise. But not for Michele Kobke. This 28-year-old woman has shrunk her waist from 25 inches to just 16 inches, by wearing a corset every day for three years, even when she sleeps.

The girl from Berlin, says she dreams to get down to just 15 inches to be like her idol, American Cathie Jung, who currently holds the record for the world’s smallest midriff. Michele believes she has the perfect feminine figure. However, her tiny waist has already caused her breathing and digestive problems, and doctors have even warned her against wearing the corset non-stop.

Michele likes to keep a detailed account of her journey on her Facebook page and YouTube videos, by showing off different corsets to her followers. To date, she has spent more than 5000 pounds on buying and making corsets for her 5 feet 5-inch frame.

6. Amoo Hadji

Amoo Hadji is the dirtiest man in this world, who has not taken a shower for the last 65 years. This 85-year-old man looks like a troll or may be a creature from the fantasy films.

Amoo Hadji lives in the village of Dezhgah in Iran. He lives a dirty, but fairly primitive life with one of his most prized possession being a 3-inch steel pipe, through which he smokes animal dung instead of tobacco. His skin is scaly and muddy, you can barely see his eyes and one can only imagine how he must smell like.

Also, it’s quite hard to believe this is a real human being, just by looking at him. When it comes to food, he cooks animal carcasses such as rotten porcupine meat. And for shelter at night, he uses a hole in the ground which resembles a grave pit. Hadji believes cleanliness brings him sickness. May be that’s the reason he lives so freely and with nothing to hide.

5. Moustafa Ismail

Moustafa Ismail is the cartoon character Popeye in real life and is the Guinness Record holder for the largest upper arm circumference in the world. He is popularly known as ‘The Egyptian Popeye’.

Mustafa also manages a tough diet to maintain his upper arms measuring a whopping 31 inches. His diet includes seven pounds of protein, nine pounds of carbohydrates and three gallons of water each day. Some skeptical people say his upper arm is due to steroids or some artificial fake medium.

4. Sun Mingming

At 7 feet 9 inches, Sun Mingming from China, is currently the tallest basketball player in the world. He even holds a Guinness World Record for the tallest professional basketball player.

Apart from being a professional athlete, he’s also an actor and has also appeared in the movie Rush Hour 3 as “Kung Fu Giant” for a fight scene with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Mingming also holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest living couple in the world. Yes, his life partner Xu Yan, is also 6 feet 2 inches tall and together they make the tallest living married couple with their combined height of 13 feet and 11 inches.

3. Wang Fang

We all know the catchphrase “Two steps forward, one step back”. But, in this miracle woman’s case, it’s the total opposite: “Two steps backward, one step forward.” Yes, Wang Fang, a 34-year-old waitress from China, was born with a rare condition that caused her feet to develop backwards.

Her condition is the cause of abnormal development prior to birth. Despite this unusual condition, brave Wang Fang continues to lead normal life and refuses to accept disability pension. Interestingly enough, she says there’s no reason to class her as disabled and can even run faster than most of her friends – except of course she puts her shoes on backwards.

Doctors initially felt Wang’s condition would prevent her from walking, but she believed that life is about making the best of the situations we see troublesome, and that’s exactly what she’s doing – living life to the fullest.

2. Gerkary Bracho Blequett

Gerkary Bracho Blequett from Florida has become an internet star after posting videos of her skilful tongue-tricks online. Her tongue is so long that she can use it to touch her elbow, her ear lobe and even lick her eye. And is hoping to lick anyone who gets in her way to get into the Guinness World Records for having the world’s longest tongue.

Currently the record holder for the world’s longest tongue is Nick Stoeberl, whose tongue measures 3.97 inches long. Gerkary claims her tongue measures 4.48 inches, which if verified, would enter the record books. The 21-year-old first realised her tongue was really long when her friends dared her to lick her eyes. And ever since that moment – Gerkary has been keen to show off her newfound talent!

1. Olivier Richters

Olivier Richters, also known as “The Dutch Giant”, is by far the tallest bodybuilder in the world with a height of 7.2 feet and weighing 298 pounds. Olivier made a hard time progress in his life, despite of his physical limitations.

Olivier was able to overcome a birth defect to obtain a physique that would transform his entire life. Olivier’s heart was 20% smaller and rotated at a weird angle. But with really hard work to gain control on his body to an incredibly inspiring transformation to greatly become a known bodybuilder.

Standing at a huge 7 feet 2 inches, he towers above most, including the likes of big name bodybuilders Jay Cutler and Martyn Ford. He is the CEO of a Muscle Food Company and aims to follow on from the success of his meat company to become an actor, and maybe one day work within the professional wrestling industry, the famous WWE, run by Vince McMahon