I'd put an ad out for people with strange and special talents to be in a special TV show like "Superhumans" or Ripley's Believe It or Not". I'd promise fame, fortune and admiration, and out of the bunch I'd at least get somebody with an abnormally long memory, or extreme flexibility or higher strength than normal or really high intelligence or psychic powers.
That way I could plan more adeptly on how to find folks with OTHER powers.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)