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Humans have been puzzled by things like the depths of the ocean and outer space. But one equally mysterious object has been standing right in front of you when you look in the mirror. It’s a human body.

And one TikTok creator named Knowledgesaurus has been stripping away the mystery surrounding it in a series of “How Rare Is Your Body?” videos. From explaining what percentage of people have features like cracked tongue, angled palm crease, or an extra rib, to counting how many people have the ability to write with both their right and left hands, or can make a clover out of their tongue.

The informative and fun videos gained Knowledgesaurus immediate popularity with millions of views and 1.3M followers, so let’s see some of the most interesting body facts that will pump your biology knowledge muscle so you can show it off in the next trivia session.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 25% of people sneeze when they're exposed to direct sunlight. It's called the photic sneeze reflex.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 30% of people can flare their nostrils on command. However that muscle has very little use and is usually weak, so a lot of people can't do it on command.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 12% of people have tetrachromacy - the ability to see a lot more colors than the majority of people. They can see about 10 times as many shades and colors as someone with normal vision.

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aight dangit, now I wanna know what colors I'm missing out on...Or am I not missing any at all....hmmmmm.

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With 1.4 million followers and 38.5 million likes on TikTok, Knowledgesaurus is the internet’s beloved creator sharing everything interesting—facts, smart observations, and common myths—in lighthearted and fun videos. Bored Panda reached out to Knowledgesaurus to find out more about his personality and how his love for fun facts and dinosaurs won the hearts of the internet.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 2% of people naturally have red hair. In order to have a child with this hair color, both parents need to possess the gene, and while redheads make up a tiny part of the population, one study found that 30% of ads have people with red hair in them.

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Hayley Rodgers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My maternal grandma and grandpa were redheads, my mom and sister are redheads, my husband's dad had read hair, my son is a red head. Out of 23 niblings in both families, my son is the only redhead

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 9% of people can taste the soap taste in cilantro. Cilantro contains the chemical that is also a byproduct of soapmaking.

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“I’m 25 years old and have been an entrepreneur since the age of 19. I found success with that early on and ended up dropping out of college. I made good money, but wasn’t happy.” At that point, the TikTok creator took a risk and decided to “stop all that and start something more fun that I’m interested in and that’s how Knowledgesaurus started. I started this account 1/1/2021 with the goal of growing it and making it my full-time job and within 110 days, I was able to reach 1 million followers, which I’m so thankful for!”

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 5% of people have amber eyes - golden or coppery with flakes of gold, green or brown. Amber eyes are very common in dogs, bird and fish.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people have this small little hole right on their ear. Some evolutionary biologists claim this used to be a gill on humans.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 24% of people can raise one eyebrow, however you can learn to do this as well.

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When asked how he came up with the idea for the "How Rare Are You?" series, Knowledgesaurus said it started after making a bunch of videos and seeing what people enjoyed watching. “I realized that people love to know information about themselves and love statistics. So that’s how the series began.”

“I always loved knowing random useless information to surprise people with,” the content creator said and added: “I think it all started when I was younger. If someone was talking about something I didn’t know much about, I would go and look up stuff about it and find interesting information about that topic so I could have a better conversation next time.”

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 10% of people have something called Morton's toe. It's when your big toe is shorter than the one next to it. The Statue of Liberty actually has a Morton's toe as well.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 33% of people can whistle. Almost everyone has the ability to whistle, it just takes the right techniques.

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Kirsten Kerkhof
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, if you can't whistle it's because you didn't eat the crusts of your bread. Or so my mother claimed.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 1% of people are ambidextrous - they have no preference for the use of right or left hand.

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Alia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m 33 and South African and I don’t have it, at my last dentist appointment they did and x-ray and said they will never grow, very lucky

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Allan Breum
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even more extraordinary; A small percentage of them can use each hand for separate tasks, I.E. One hand drawing, and one hand writing.

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Amy Cohen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a leftie but always played tennis and softball as a righty. Also my mouse was always on the right. I'm useless in every other way in the right.

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Dre Mosley
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not, but I find that I have a preference for one hand or the other for certain things. I'm right-handed for sure, but when I draw, oddly enough, I use my left hand. I can write pretty well with my left too.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In this case I think you are! The rest of us do almost everything with one hand and especially for something like writing or drawing the one hand is completely useless!

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Michelle M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Quick fact: using your left limbs strengthens the right side of your brain and right limbs do the same for the left side. So use your less dominant hand more.

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Felicity Lemon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which means my right side of the brain is... let's say it only needs to use leg and arm functions + peel potatoes... Oof

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes and no. No matter how well you train your second hand it will always be your second hand. You'll have a dominant hand you unconsciously prefer to use even if your skill level with both are identical. People who are truly ambidextrous don't have that unconscious preference for one hand over the other.

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Aubry
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was born ambidextrous! It sucks because you don't have fine motor skills so you have to learn how to do delicate tasks like using tweezers or a pencil and you have to pick a hand to train to be dominant

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elStiJneriNO
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm a lefty for writing and handling knives/scissors/... but i learned to play volleyball/pingpong right handed. So i have no idea anymore what's my dominant one as writing has become so seldom. I can't write right and i can't coordinate my left to correctly smash a ball. it's not really ambidextrous because i can't switch

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H Edwards
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same with my mother, but I think they forced her to use her right hand at school back in the 1950s.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my grandad was born left-handed but punished for it and trained his right hand as a kid so now he’s ambidextrous. me and one of my old primary school friends were like kinda there. like she’s born left handed, me right, but we have a far greater control over our less dominant hand than others and don’t really have a preference. only when it comes to writing and even then she doesn’t really have too much. i can kinda write with my left but it’s not too neat.

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Ayame Ackerman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am ambidextrous but it's because when I was in kinder I was in a catholic school and the believed that left handed people didn't go to heaven so they forced me to right with my right hand

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Melanie Filmer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Gran could do this, not just mirror either, she could write a totally different sentence with each hand!

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Cin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't realise it was that few. My preference depends on the job, writing is left, using scissors is right, for example.

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Debbie Burton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could write with both hands until Year 4 when a teacher yelled at me every day for doing that!

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Derek Clark
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wasn't ambidextrous with my hands, I was with my feet. But I had to learn to be right handed at school (I'm left handed) and then I've had to learn to use my right hand in the hospital when my dominant left hand was out of commission for a long time. Now I can use both and my handwriting is completely different with each hand which confuses a lot of people.

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Anja Schmidt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

cool ... no injuries because of brushing teeth with the other hand ...

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My son has this. But it depends on what he's doing. If he's eating, he uses his right hand. Drawing or writing, uses his left. Shakes hands with someone, right. If you hand him something he will use his right hand to grab it, but if he hands it to you, he uses his left hand.

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Cain Hargreaves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried to teach myself to write with my non-dominant hand one summer. I didn't get very far. I do have preferences one way or the other. If I need strength for a task, I use my right hand. If I need dexterity I, ironically, use my left hand.

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Solidhog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I found out during the lockdown that I was ambidextrous. I could use either hand to contsantly feed myself food!

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a leftie, but I can write backwards with my left hand and forwards with my right hand at the same time.

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Suzanne Griscom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ambidextrous means one can use either and for a task but still have a preferred hand. Mixed-handedness means the person has no preferred and and has to consciously choose which h a nd to use for every task. It's a result of extreme amounts of cortisol in the pregnant mother and has high frequency of schizophrenia.

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HooowlAtTheMoon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I WISH i were ambidextrous, but im right handed (it would be so useful when your arm gets tired doing something)

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Bored Turtleduck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think people have made another category, mixed handed, for people who use hands for different tasks. I do most sports with my left side and write with my right hand, but use utensils with either. I was also born a lefty and switched to a righty for unknown reasons.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom is ambidextrous. My friend is kind of too, but her right hand is a bit weaker than her left.

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chrissy goodman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i guess im part of the 1% my teachers actually yelled at me for constantly switching hands until i told them i only do it wen one hand gets tired and showed them my handwriting didnt change and made me prove it infront of the class. lets just say i was the cool kid for a long time wen i was in elementary school just bc i can use both left and right for everything

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish so much I was ambidextrous, I can barely play guitar with my left hand, with my right I'm Kerry King, would be very useful, though I eat like a left handed person and skate like a left footed person but I'm definitely right-handed, very odd.

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Leslie Burleson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brother and grandson are ambidextrous, my oldest child , father in law , and 2 nephews are lefties.

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Heather W
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother was ambidextrous and I think it's because Grandma beat the left-handedness out of her. I wonder how many of the 1% are the same.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I struggled to learn the difference between left and right, as a child. This was why. I can write upside down, mirror image, both hands. I tend to write right handed these days, because my hand doesn’t block my line of sight while writing. I draw with both regularly, switching if one gets tired.

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Nadine
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago they would force left handers to only use their right hands in school. My grandfather was one and was then ambidextrous.

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Suzanne Haigh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can use both hands for just about everything but my left had is not as accurate as my right

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Kira Okah
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is the percentage of cross-dominance I wonder then? It was thought for a long time that I was ambidextrous, but I am not, and supposedly I'm cross-dominant.

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*note*: Naturally ambidextrous. You can teach yourself, but it's harder than you think. I've been trying for *years*.... *sigh*

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Rainy Day Wolf
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hurt my right hand's elbow and couldn't use it properly for almost a month... by the end of that month I'd learned to do most things with the left hand (not handwrite though). After I started using my right hand again I was very clumsy, my brain wanted to grab stuff but both hands XD... I still prefer to use my left hand for a bunch of stuff like using the mouse and sometimes I use the spoon (so I can have a taco with the right)... Anyway if you want to learn to use your left hand, stop using your right hand.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am! It's awesome. But I usually choose what do to with each hand, I usually write with my left and draw with my right for example.

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Šimon Špaček
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No preferences... That is weird. I understand that they can use both hands equally well, but no preferences? Nothing like "I prefer to write with right hand and brush teeth with left" or something like that?

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Carmen Sandiego
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can use my left hand pretty well, but not as well as my right. Oh well.

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IlovemydogShilo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Keanu Reeves. Dan Ackroyd, Paul Mc Cartney and Ringo Starr are ambidextrous. As was Albert Einstein Nicola Tesla and Benjamín Franklin.

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Ancsuri
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am one of them. But as a child people always tried to force me to use my right hand. So writing is easier with the right hand, but by basketball I can use both hands equally good.

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troufaki13
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm right-handed but I do many things with my left hand, like ironing, using the mouse on my computer, sometimes I even reach for the pen with my left hand and write down a phone number. I don't consider myself as ambidextrous though

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad and one of my brothers are ambidextrous. I am pretty hopeless with my left hand.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 1% of people need less sleep than the rest of us. These people have Sleeper Syndrome which allows them to go through a sleep cycle faster than an average person.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 35% of people have no wisdom teeth. Wisdom teeth used to serve a purpose but now they no longer do, which is why we take them out so they don't get infected while they're pushing through your gums. If you don't have wisdom teeth, I'm jealous of you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

35%?? Everyone I know has or had wisdom teeth. Does this occur in certain populations?

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 83.7% of people can roll their tongue, but only 14.7% of people can make a clover out of their tongue.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 4% of people have Raynaud's syndrome. This is when a part of your body, usually your fingers or toes, starts to turn white when exposed to low temperatures. It's your body's overreaction to cold or distress.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have this! It's incredibly painful & feels like the worst kind of pins & needles imaginable.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 10% of people have Darwin's tubercle - the little bump on the outside of your ear. It's believed that people who have this are better at sensing voice tonality.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people in the US have AB-Negative blood. There's also something called Golden blood, which only about 40 people in the world have, and it's completely different than any other blood.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 16% of people can make a roaring noise in their head using their jaw. They're able to do this because they can control a small muscle in their jaw that deafens chewing, but when it is flexed it makes a roaring noise.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people have unbreakable bones. This is caused by a mutation in one of the genes that causes the bones to be up to 8 times denser.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 35% of people can gleek. Only 1% of people can do it on command. Gleeking is when you're spitting saliva from under your tongue and it squirts out.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people are born with a white patch of hair. It is called poliosis, which is caused by the lack of pigment called melanin in the hair follicles.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Two of my maid’s children have this. Brown and white hair. I love their hair.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 5% of people have arched fingerprints. Most people have looped and whorled fingerprints.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people have their heart on the right side of their body. Surprisingly, this doesn't normally come with any negative consequences.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 25% of people have dimples. You can have either two, or just one. Dimples are also hereditary, so if either of your parents has a dimple, it's more likely you'll have one as well.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have two dimples and so does my mum. I hated them as a child, but now I think they are cute

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 20% of people have a gap between their two front teeth. What normally causes this is a discrepancy between the jaw size and the teeth. A lot of celebrities have this and don't correct it because they think it makes them unique.

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Rose the Cook
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people believe this is an indication that you will become rich. I have yet to see anyone who has.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 2% of people naturally have blonde hair. If you narrow it down just to white people in the United States, that percentage goes up to 5%.

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Kirsten Kerkhof
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it depends on what you classify as blonde. Is it truly white hair or just lighter (like dark blonde)?

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 10% of people have birthmarks. They're usually oval in shape and come in a coffee type color.

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Katie Lutesinger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to have a big oval birthmark, on my lower back. But it faded as I got older and eventually disappeared altogether.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 70% of people bend their head to the right when kissing. Your brain is the cause for this. The left side of our face shows more emotion so we want to give our partner the more emotive side and we tilt our head to the right.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve always gone left! I don’t know why apart from it just feels more comfortable for me

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 1% of people have a double row of eyelashes. While this might look like something a lot of you are jealous of, it actually can cause a lot of problems.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people have pointy or elf-like ears. It's an abnormality called Stahl's ear, it's usually corrected early in life.

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Sleazy Weaver
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why does it need correcting? Isn't it just a cosmetic difference? Shouldn't it be up to the child to keep it or change it once they're old enough to make the decision, as long as it isn't impacting their hearing?

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 35% of people have 20/20 vision. 2/3 people cannot see perfectly.

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Doggo Gal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad has 20\16. It means what the average person could see at 16 ft, my dad could see the same at 20. My brother has 20\150.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 25% of people have perfect teeth and never need braces or any orthodontics. 45% of children need braces, but 75% need orthodontic care.

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Demi Zwaan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Need or want? My teeth aren't perfect and if I was an actor or something, I would've 'needed' braces, but health-wise I don't. So do they mean 75% will have health problems if they don't get work done, or just that it looks ugly?

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 14% of people don't have this muscle - Palmaris Longus. This muscle was developed when our ancestors were big tree climbers. If you want to see if you still have it, pull back your palm on a flat surface, touch your pinky and thumb together and slightly lift them and you should see that ligament pop out.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 6% of people can vibrate and rapidly shake their eyeballs back and forth.

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#36

Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 10% of people can touch their nose with their tongues. In medicine, this is called the Gorlin sign.

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#37

Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 20% of people are double jointed. This is thought to be genetic and due to a variation in collagen in your connective tissues.

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Lauren W.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish they'd stop calling it double jointed. There are no double joints. Like it says, it's just a variation in connective tissue and joint flexibility.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 4% of people are colorblind. Color blindness occurs in 8% of men and 0.5% of women.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people can give themselves goosebumps on command. The majority of people get them when they're cold or listening to music, but some can give themselves goosebumps whenever they want to.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yup i just have to imgine biting into a popsicle. lol i liteally got goosebumps writing this.

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 1% of the population can lick their elbow. The people that can do this usually have either a long tongue or a short forearm, or both.

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmmm...I wonder...:: unsuccessfully trying to lick my elbow...Wife walks in and witnesses me trying::: Wife- What the ever lovin h3ll are you doing? Me as embarrassment and awkwardness set in:: Ummm... nothing hon...nothin at all...

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 10% of people are left handed. Left handed people tend to live shorter lives.

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Nicky
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just googled this and snopes declared this was false. Yeah!!!

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 25% of the population snores regularly.

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Giulia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can sleep if outside there are loud construction sounds but god forbid i hear even the smallest snore ever: i can't sleep and i become instantly annoyed ;_;

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 8.4% of people have a counterclockwise hair whorl on their head, while the majority has a clockwise one.

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#46

Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 8% of people still have chimp-like feet, that are specifically adapted to climbing trees. This is characterized by a mid-foot arch. If you want to check if you have this, see if you can bend the ball of your foot as well as the region half-way between your heel and the ball of your foot.

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Demi Zwaan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a hard time understanding this, because that picture is not showing the mentioned bend at all. This is what it looks like: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRv7izzuQZ8x4BdXJ5PzLGWd-Ogt4KLZ4xgMQ&usqp=CAU

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Only 4% of people have an outie belly button. Believe it or not, doctors can't choose if you'll have an innie or an outie belly button, things like the belly button itself and the fat beneath it determine what it will look like.

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#48

Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series Less than 1% of people have an extra rib. Most people are born with 24, but some have 25 ribs. The 25th is called a cervical rib.

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Nicky
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I fell skating, an x-ray revealed that I had an extra bone in my forearm. The doctor took med students to see me and my unexpected x-ray!

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Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series 25% of people have a Hitchhiker's thumb - when the upper part of the thumb can bend 90 degrees backwards. It's caused by a certain gene.

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#50

Person Invites You To Learn 'How Rare Is Your Body?' In His Viral Series About 20% of people have a pupil that is bigger than the other. This is called anisocoria, it can be a very small, or a very big difference.

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