“The Can Head” .. The story of a man who sticks everything to his body

When Jimmy Keaton was seven years old, he noticed that things stick to his body in a strange way, especially the toys he was playing with, and in a way that is not like what happens with the rest of the people, but his family guessed that it was related to his young habit of climbing trees that might contain some glue, and neglected Keaton says this up until his adulthood, when an incident happened to him that aroused his curiosity a lot.

And while he was playing baseball with his colleagues, he wanted to cool his shaved head by passing a can of cold soda water on him, and for a moment he stopped moving by trying to catch the baseball, to find that the cold can disappeared, and when he touched his head he found it stuck to his head and did not fall despite his attempt to drop it.

Jimmy went to the doctor's visit with a box full of pistachios stuck to his forehead, showing the stunned doctor the ability of his skin to absorb things, including up to a liter of water, to the point that the doctor asked him how to do it, and he said, "This is what I'm here for. I want to know why," according to the website. «Boeing Boeing»

And it turned out later, according to the study of doctors, that he has skin that has a rare ability to absorb things, because of his great ability to consume oxygen, and that there are four in the whole world who have this ability.

The man was then called "Can Head" or "the head of the box", as his fame became popular after his pictures spread on social media, to the point that officials from the Guinness Book of Records called him and wanted to register his ability with them, and indeed the young man obtained his certificate from the famous group after he Eight empty soda cans stuck to his head.

 Jimmy says that he did not realize that he could make money from this exceptional talent, until he began receiving invitations to participate in advertising and marketing campaigns for various drinks and products, until his photo album became full of pictures with celebrities such as George Clooney and Adam Sandler.

Apparently, this divine gift became the source of livelihood for the young man, whose family thought that all there was to it was some glue stuck to his hands from behind a climbing tree in the garden.

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