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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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#1
25% of people sneeze when they're exposed to direct sunlight. It's called the photic sneeze reflex.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I have this too. It can be helpful when you have a proto-sneeze that doesn't want to come out. Look at a bright light...ah-choo!
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I know it's not quite the same, but if I have a sneeze that won't come, I look into a light or towards the sun to help bring it on.
Sweetie Dahling 4 years ago
Me too! I only recently learned that doesn't work for everybody
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brian jones 4 years ago
I have this (also known as Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) syndrome and all i got was this lousy acronym
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
I have it, but it's not consistent. Sometimes I sneeze, sometimes not.
Telmo Belo 4 years ago
I always sneeze exactly twice. And the very first thing my baby son did the first time the sun hit his face was to sneeze. Twice.
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#2
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.
Sakuhana 4 years ago
... I genuinly thought everybody could do it but just didn't advertised it. Wow OoO
Val Tester 4 years ago
It’s not hard I thought it was normal XD I used to pretend I was a gorilla while flaring my nostrils.
#3
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.
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
Aight dangit, now I wanna know what colors I'm missing out on...Or am I not missing any at all....hmmmmm.
Dynein 4 years ago
You aren't missing much. Tetrachromacy in humans is nothing like tetrachromacy in birds. The wavelengths of light we see as red, green and yellow are really quite close together. The ability to differentiate between red and green evolved fairly recently in primates (see my other comment), so the genes are still similar and the proteins they encode detect very similar wavelengths. And because they are still evolving, people have different versions of the genes and detect slightly different wavelengths as red and green. The genes are on the X chromosome so women can get two versions, and if the versions are sufficiently different they can detect extra shades. But because the genes are still very similar even in that case, it's really more accurate to say that they see "extra shades" because it's still a very long way from the tetrachromacy of birds.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
This is confusing tho cause idk if I’m missing any colors.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
My dad was a house painter for over fifty years. I don't think he can see extra colors, but his eye for tones is amazing. He can look at two shades of off-white that look the same and tell you that one has a little more yellow, for example. I love the weird skills that people develop after years doing a job.
Otter 4 years ago
Previous studies have shown that women are much better at picking out slight differences in color than men... and IMHO that's because women have had to pick out lipsticks! Lots of women can look at 500 reddish colors all displayed together, and tell you how they differ. So really, what I mean to say is that I agree with you, I think that kind of color analysis is learned.
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v 4 years ago
I know tetrachromacy exists but the above graphic is, I believe, simplistic and misrepresents what tetrachromacy actually is. This graphic is more of an illustration of how a person who knows the name of a shade sees the spectrum vs. someone who doesn't know the name of a shade. Outside of those who are color blind I'd be willing to bet that all seeing this graphic can see all the colors represented. Tetrachromacy allows a person to see colors outside the normal spectrum and there is no way to represent this because, unless you're tetrachromatic you can't see these colors.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
No the graph is unrelated, it belongs with the myth that women have more names for colours and distinguish more (by name). The actual graph is from (the comic) Doghouse Diaries. XKCD did fun non-scientific research on that a few years ago, worth a read and a few laughs, at https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Load More Replies... Dynein 4 years ago
We have three types of proteins for color perception. Each is encoded by a single gene. They are related to each other- i.e. the gene for the color perception protein got duplicated on the DNA, and mutated to detect a different color. A lot of animals (birds, many fish) have true tetrachromacy - they have four proteins which evolved to detect colors that are perfectly spaced out on the range of visible light. Mammals lost some color vision genes and have only two of the proteins (short wavelength blue, long wavelength = red AND green together). Primates can see three colors - the long wavelength gene duplicated, mutated, and so primates can differentiate between green and red. These genes are not done evolving, so people disagree about shades of green, red and yellow because their proteins detect slightly different wavelengths. Women can can get two versions of the genes, and if these versions are different enough, they are technically tetrachromats - but nowhere close to birds!
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
My second cousin has the exact opposite problem She has a condition called achromatopsia, which means she can only see things as black and white or in shades of grey.
carolineduffy 4 years ago
So a form of colorblindness then? Or is it entirely different?
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Ray Martin 4 years ago
That's me, too. In fact, depending upon its brightness, I can often see an eighth 'colour' in the rainbow at the red end.
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.
#4
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.
Hayley Rodgers 4 years ago
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
Auntriarch 4 years ago
Niblings, is that when you bite your brother or sister
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago (edited)
I have red hair. I also have blue eyes, and red hair and blue eyes is something only 0.2% of people have.
Eleni Aggeliki 4 years ago
Mum has light brown hair and fair skin. In contrast, dad has olive skin and jet-black hair. I'm a redhead! WTF! Dad grew a mustache after I was born to disperse the indiscreet remarks. It's red! He's beyond funny. Black hair and ginger whiskers. That's my dad.
Kayla J 4 years ago
I too am a redhead in a dark haired family, though no red whiskers. My poor Mother used to always be stopped by people at the store asking if it was my father who had the red hair when it was his side who had the darkest hair lol
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Ria C. 4 years ago (edited)
So is my nephew. His eyes were blue when he was born but they changed.
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Asi Bassey 4 years ago
Still on redheads, they carry a mutated version of the MC1R gene, which in addition to giving their hair its unique colour, also means they process pain differently and require higher doses of inhalational anaesthesia than non-redheads.
Melissa TO 4 years ago
True! My husband is redhead/blue eyed. His dentist couldn't get him numb! Luckily, when he had his appendix out his anesthesiologist was also a redhead.
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Violet Smith 4 years ago
yes, as adults. A lot of children have blond hair that darkens as they hit puberty.
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Alice Coulter 4 years ago
I was born a "toe-head" as they used to say, white-blonde hair, just like my parents, brothers, and most of my relatives. As I aged it turned "dirty blonde" then med brown. JUST LIKE almost everyone else in my family on both sides. I had to go through some chemo in my late 30s and I was without a spec of hair on my entire body for 6 months. My hair started growing again and it came back kinky (I had bone straight hair) and FLAME ORANGE! It toned down to a darker red over the course of 2 months then slowly replaced itself with light brown hair again. I asked my Mom if anyone in our family, both sides, ever had naturally red hair. "Just one, your great Grandmother, but we don't have color photos of her of course, but she had bright red hair like that her entire life until it turned white". I kind of miss that color, but not the corkscrew little ringlets that first appeared. Was it the chemicals used in my chemo cocktails or latent genes?
Adinda Jane 1 year ago (edited)
I love your story! Although the chemo-part is sad. Ofcourse. 😔 I hope you're okay! Okay this is a wild guess because I'm not working in genetics. The information for hair colour is on your X chromosome. And by the name of Alice I suppose you're female. So you have two X chromosomes. One from your mother's mother (mother mother mother and sofort) and one from your father's mother. The same applies for cats. Tortoiseshell cats are always females. Some of the spots on their fur one X chromosome is "dominant" and another spot the other. Which implies every cel "determined" which X chromosome it activated. So perhaps something like this was triggered by the chemo?
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Less than 1% of people can hear colors or see sounds (synesthesia).
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I see colours when I hear music. Also a strange one, Peoples' names all have different and individual colours too.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Really? A true synesthete? That's fascinating! How do you manage to describe things to others, who do not have the same capacity? Wow.
Load More Replies... fuggnuggins 4 years ago (edited)
My understanding is a bit piecemeal, so take it with a grain of salt, and there could be several ways something like that happens: Thoughts, memories, etc. are (at least in part) neuronal cascades. Like, one nerve fires, triggers a few others and they fire, trigger a few each, and on until it dissipates. Certain substances, and other stimuli, can cause this to happen randomly, and it becomes recognisable because they happen in the same patterns even if started randomly. (Things like certain shapes - basic primitives, facial expressions, postures - are kind of hardwired into a part of the visual processing system, and no doubt certain categories of other sensory information are, also.) And sometimes the substance can cause the cascades to bleed over into other nerve patterns/memory structures. and also the brain has a layer of processing that filters out neuronal noise and distinguishes signals (like when you can distinguish a voice in a noisy room full of voices), but if this is interrupted for some reason then normally differentiated signals can be hard to distinguish and may blend. So, you are receiving a stimulus for, maybe, sound and it is bleeding over into, or perhaps coinciding with a randomly stimulated trigger of a visual representation (colour, shapes), and they're interpreted as being the same signal. One that I've had with psychedelics is tasting textures.
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Ames A 4 years ago
Ah, I have a mild version of this where I heavily assign colors to names and words. For example, June is violet to me, and I’ve never met another who agrees with me.
Wreathy 4 years ago
I have this (probably from a head injury when I was young). I see sound as shapes and colours. It's automatic. I only notice it if I think about it..it's just how I experience sound so I don't think about it often. It's partly why I love electronic music..it looks beautiful
Adinda Jane 1 year ago
I picture you being at a rave, looking in extasy! While you're the only one sober.
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InfectedVoice 4 years ago
I can't even really comprehend what that would be like, amazing, we know eff all about our brains.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago (edited)
No, shitloads is known about the brain these days. There's still loads to know but they're not really that mysterious anymore. And there are ways to experience even things like this. Electrocution can achieve it - people getting electro-shock therapy report it, as well as people who have been struck by lightning or who are maybe a little hasty when it comes to cutting electrical cables with naked blades. Psychedelics can cause these experiences, also. I'd recommend the latter as soon as the former, but you're your own person. Just, inform yourself before you consider taking to an electrical socket with a fork.
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9% of people can taste the soap taste in cilantro. Cilantro contains the chemical that is also a byproduct of soapmaking.
Mimi 4 years ago
Same... the rest of my family thinks im being overdramatic lol
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
In the US it is called cilantro. Don't know about other countries except in Aus we call it coriander.
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Aroha 4 years ago
Coriander is so delicious that I often eat it fresh, plain, just munching away like a rabbit 😍.
H Edwards 4 years ago
I love cilantro (or coriander as we call in in the UK), but I always check if I am making food for people if they find it soapy. I can imagine how that would ruin a dish.
Tom D 4 years ago
It isn't good. Even a tiny bit will ruin a dish for me 😢
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Skye Mayhem 4 years ago
That's so odd. It's the other way around for me. :-D
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
I feel it's a lot more than 9%. Me and my husband both can. Luckily, because we never have to argue about adding it to our dishes or not :)
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
What's cilantro? Is it the same as coriander because I can't imagine that tasting like soap at all.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I used to think my mum was joking when she said coriander tasted soapy until I read about this on BP a couple of years ago.
“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!”
#7
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.
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago (edited)
I've seen quite a lot of people like that here in Pakistan, they all tend to be from the same region in Punjab. they kinda look like cats XD
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
My mom had them. I used to tell my friends she was part lion.
AlmightyOne 4 years ago
Mine look vaguely amber in the right lighting. Mom has always described them as "honey brown"
CalicoKitty 4 years ago
Amber eyes are more common than green eyes, but written about less in fiction. Probably because they're more common in people who aren't going to go crispy when left outside for five minutes. It's a shame. They're just as striking as green, gray, or blue.
#8
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.
mcborge1 4 years ago
"Some evolutionary biologists claim this used to be a gill on humans." That seems fishy to me. :D
Dynein 4 years ago
In all honesty though, that IS an absolutely ridiculous claim.
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Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
Nope. It leads to nowhere, so no other end to put the fastener on.
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Lotten Kalenius 4 years ago
My brother has them. Always thought of them as screw holes on a Frankenstein's monster creation.
Verena 4 years ago
I have one on my left ear. I only found out they were rare a few years ago.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Can you fit things in it? Like a tiny Pearl? Lol
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24% of people can raise one eyebrow, however you can learn to do this as well.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I can only raise my left eye brow, as soon as I try to raise my right my left raises too. Don't understand why though.
Bina Cobbler 4 years ago
I can do that with my left eyebrow. It's a vital skill for my teaching job. It gets the job done better than any words will ever do.
Otter 4 years ago
Apparently not everyone can learn, I tried very hard to master the skill of raising one brow like Mr. Spock during my teen Trekkie years, but failed.
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Start by raising your eyebrows, get used to the feeling. Then, as best as I can describe it, try to make one frown while keeping the other up? Your eyebrows will need practice to not move in unison, it takes lots of practice. I used to only be able to lift my ŕight brow independently, bit I've managed to teach myself to lift the left separately as well
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Lol, my mum did this so much one eyebrow is permanently a little higher than the other 😂
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.”
#10
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.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Me too, though not as pronounced—-maybe just a quarter inch difference, but still longer than the big toe.
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sofacushionfort 4 years ago
The Greeks called it Noble Toe. They believed it made them superior to those Egyptians whose toes were splayed from walking in the mud of the Nile.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
My big toes are smaller because I had to have surgery called a Symes Bi-lateral Terminal Amputation done on them because of hereditary chronic ingrown toenails. The doctor cut out the top joint and nail and folded the skin over and stitched it to look like a smile. I had to have 4 re-dos on my right one because he didn't get all the nail cells, and a horrible tiny nail kept growing up through the skin. Felt like a knife pushing through and OMG the blood! Most embarrassed once I was at a major theme park, and the horrified woman in line with us screamed and there was so much blood coming through, I was leaving a bloody shoe print! I didn't feel it. It's been 36 years since then and they are fine...and my shoes fit great LOL!
Ladymar Touzett 4 years ago
me!! When I was a kid I hated it! now its ok, I like my feet :) they allow me to stand
#11
Only 33% of people can whistle. Almost everyone has the ability to whistle, it just takes the right techniques.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Well, if you can't whistle it's because you didn't eat the crusts of your bread. Or so my mother claimed.
kasa alex 4 years ago
I thought crusts gave you curly hair? That's what I was taught...hmmmm, seems like someone here has been lied to...
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Wait, if everyone has the ability, then how do only 33% "can whistle"?
Aroha 4 years ago (edited)
But what about whistling in tune? My family thinks it's like a super power that I can whistle any song perfectly. I don't know how, I just can.
Jennie-Lind Normand 4 years ago
I've heard that's rare, but I can do it too. Cant sing on key to save my life though....hahaha
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How about whistling inwards? I can't whistle by breathing the air out, only in.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago
I can do both - means I don't have to pause to take in a breath. Can whistle non-stop. How's that for annoying other people??!! 🤣
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Oh wow, didn't know it was that low of a number. My son is so excited coz he whistled for the first time last week and now it's hard to get him to stop lol.
Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
I can but not very strongly and not very well either. So... my dad doesn't like me practicing my whistling... which means I can't improve it. So yeah...
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
I can whistle sometimes, not particularly well, and at other times, not at all.
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Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago (edited)
Oh. I can whistle but it's really shrill. Sounds like a bird chirping. Does it count?
#12
Only 1% of people are ambidextrous - they have no preference for the use of right or left hand.
Alia 4 years ago
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 4 years ago
Even more extraordinary; A small percentage of them can use each hand for separate tasks, I.E. One hand drawing, and one hand writing.
Amy Cohen 4 years ago
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 4 years ago (edited)
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.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
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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Patsy 4 years ago
I can write legibly with both hands, but while I'm a righty, my left hand writes backwards...
Michelle M 4 years ago
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.
Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
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 4 years ago
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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elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
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
#13
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.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Don't be. There's no fun in getting berated because you're sending e-mails at 5.45 AM because you're done sleeping and already working.
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Marta Kęska 4 years ago
That's me! I sleep on average 5 hours a day and that's enough. If I sleep more than 8 accidentally (usually on weekends) I wake up exhausted and sluggish
Axolotl King 4 years ago
Oh wait that might be me too. On nights when I get like 4 hours of sleep I wake up fine and can go about my day normally, however when I get a normal amount like 7-9 hours it takes me a long time to get up and I'm tired for like half the day
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Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
Yup...I know someone who always seems energetic even when I know they are under stress.... they only need three hours sleep... and get up to do housework bout 3am...
Night Owl 4 years ago
I have trouble sleeping, way more energy and much less ability to concentrate when under stress
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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.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
35%?? Everyone I know has or had wisdom teeth. Does this occur in certain populations?
Grace Barclay 4 years ago
My mom, who will be 81 later this week, was the only child out of her brothers and sisters to not develop wisdom teeth. Ironically, she is one of the wisest people I know.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I'm a bit weird because I did have wisdom teeth - all four of them - and they came through perfectly straight with no pain or complications, when I was 18. I still have them.
Hayley Rodgers 4 years ago
I have them. They made my dentist and hygienist giggle because they are the smallest wisdom teeth they had ever seen. They actually used the word "adorable"
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I wish I was one of those people. I have had two removed and the other two are problematic but the maxilofacial surgeon says its too risky to removed. I will likely either have numbness or pain for the rest of my life because they are extremely complicated and the roots are intertwined with the nerves and roots of the teeth next to them. Yay for me lol.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Oh foxxy i feel you! I'm in my 30s and the only one from my friends that had all 4 and all of them were problematic!! I was so fed up that i removed the last two together and i don't recommend it to do it the same time! I was swollen for 10 days even up to my eye!
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Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I only had three. The dentist said I was lucky because I was missing my bottom left and he said the bottom ones are more painful to remove.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago (edited)
One of my nieces was born without wisdom teeth or tonsils. She's also brilliant. I think she's the next evolutionary step.
Wonderful 4 years ago
I wish I didn’t have toenails. I hate the way the feel and I trim them down as much as I can.
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Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
Ancestors of humans used to have them for chewing tougher foods such as nuts and plants.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
I had all 4 of mine retracted at the same time, when I was about 27. The drugs were great, and my oral surgeon really loved my rendition of Elton John's "Sweet Painted Lady".
#15
83.7% of people can roll their tongue, but only 14.7% of people can make a clover out of their tongue.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Can't even roll my tongue, but I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue.
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#16
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.
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
I have this! It's incredibly painful & feels like the worst kind of pins & needles imaginable.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago
Me too. Though I've read that the stat is nearer 20% than 4%.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Sometimes they turn purple too, and it's horribly painful. I actually need a winter glove to take something from the freezer.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Yep, that's me. It's annoying as heck, but cool at the same time. I'm not too bothered about the 'white' period, I'm more miffed about when the blood comes back and the finger or toe starts to burn and tingle.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Get frostbite if you want to know how it feels, is what I was told. And, since I've had stage 2 frostbite, no thanks to Raynaud's!
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago (edited)
Yes, it's very painful & there are complications that can result in amputation in the worst case scenario. People with Raynaud's are very susceptible to frostbite, & if we get a cut while there's no blood in our extremities it's very easy for infections to get in. Usually, though, it's little more than a painful inconvenience during the winter.
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Nandy Nam 4 years ago
I have it , my fingers and toes turn white "dead mans fingers" and hurt but it happens so often and randomly , it doesn't need to be super hot or super cold , just a slight change on my body temperature and I am slowly dying... no sense at all on my fingers for quite a good time, I can even hit something so hard and I don't feel anything at all at the moment ... but when blood start flowing normal OUCH !!! Thank you for this post I finally know what is wrong with me and how is it called :)
Sweetie Dahling 4 years ago
I used to think everybody got this because all the women in my family have this. We call it 'dead fingers/toes'.. For me it usually doesn't even happen when it's super cold (like -40C) but more around 0 C
#17
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.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Nah more like a chimp😅😅 no offense by the way i also have it
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Must be my mom. She’s always saying “don’t use that tone of voice with me!”
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I have this and it's ironic as hell. Deafness also runs in my family especially the midrange level which is the pitch people talk at. As a child I developed a coping tool and looks at people's mouths as they talk. The combination of sound and visual of mouth movement is how I hear. Then the pandemic started and everyone wears mask lol.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I have that and have perfect pitch. Never knew it could be related!!
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
I have that. I am known in my family for being able to pick out actors in voice overss (commercials, etc) and pick out accents (mostly commonwealth) And I love monkeys. Hey. There you go.
#18
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.
Crazy Meerkat Lady 4 years ago
Fewer than 50 people worldwide have golden blood, actually called Rh-null. Blood is considered Rh-null if it lacks all of the 61 possible antigens in the Rh system. It was first identified in an Aboriginal Australian woman.
Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago
I'm going to google this Golden blood thing. That's really interesting
Nadine Debard 4 years ago
AB negative can receive any negative blood type. A, B, O or AB, But they can donate only to AB- or AB+ people.
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Henry Cheves 4 years ago
Some of the Golden Blood people should travel the world doing blood donations in case anyone else needs a transfusion.
DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
Hopefully when they need it they can use O negative blood (universal donor) otherwise it would suck to have a rare blood type and then get severely injured and need a blood transfusion.
Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
I am AB... i didn't think we were worth much as we can't help much with donation???...
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
AB or AB positive or AB negative? this is talking about AB negative
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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.
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
I can do this too, but I thought this was something everyone experiences
Leonie Avery-Gaudiniere 4 years ago
I remember when I was little asking my mum "can you hear this?". Couldn't get her to understand what I was listening to..😌
Olivia Payne-Alatsari 4 years ago
I thought everyone could do it. It's more like a whooshing sound, roaring makes me think of lions, definitely doesn't sound like a lion, more like wind or seaside.
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
I would describe it like this too, maybe also like a light thunder
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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.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
I’ve never broken a bone before, but I highly doubt this is why.
Amy Dodds 4 years ago
It comes with the trade off of not being able to swim iirc
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Zaza 4 years ago
I've often wondered if I have something like this. Never knew it was an actual thing. But had plenty breakable accidents and never broke anything. Not even a pinky toe. Would love to know about ways of confirming it (or ruling it out) without throwing myself in front of a train
Blake Ingram 4 years ago
Unfortunately, a downside to this is that those people are not able to swim as well.
David Houde 4 years ago
Interesting, could explain a lot about me. I've never broken a bone, despite a lot of abuse to my body. I've also always been a lot heavier than people think I am.
Sarah 4 years ago
I'm guessing you can't float? I've read that people who aren't buoyant have denser bones. I can lie on top of the water all day, I float so well. Yet the only bones I've broken were in a very bad car wreck.
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Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
I've broken my fair share of bones. I guess this isn't about me then
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Ditto! I could open a medical equipment store and I'm in my 40's! I need to bubble wrap myself! Fractured my right arm at age 4 falling off the car trying to collect a pretty fall leaf when a spider came along...It's been literally all downhill since then 😂
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#21
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.
kodak 4 years ago
I do this when I yawn too!! haha I feel like a reverse dragon spitting water instead of flames
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Jack Corbyn 4 years ago
I can do that, but not quite as strong as that dude. He looks like a spitting cobra.
Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago
My sister can not. Or maybe she can 🤔 I have never asked her 😂
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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.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
I have one NOW because hair dye burned out the follicles from being on the scalp.
Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
Do those people age backwards? Please don't downvote, only trying to make people laugh...
#23
Only 5% of people have arched fingerprints. Most people have looped and whorled fingerprints.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago
Yep - and more than you'd expect are realising they have arched! 15% is more realistic. I'm not altogether sure where BP are getting their stats.
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Kainaath Khan 4 years ago
I don't have finger tips. I have 'butter fingers' and keep dropping and slipping. I can't give biometrics, and even you mobile won't register my finger print scan for passwords. The doctor who examined my fingers said the finger print are erasing themselves.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Arched here. I guess unless they look at EVERYBODY, their numbers are inaccurate!
#24
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.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
UNsurprisingly, this is inaccurate! Dextrocardia (the name of the condition) with situs inversus (all organs "flipped" to other side) is fairly benign, but dextrocardia can indicate other birth defects in the heart, or in the abdominal organs. it's weird but true that if you have situs inversus, the reversed position isn't gonna be a big deal, but if you have "heterotaxy" (fancy term for : It's all in the wrong place but not inverted).... you're in trouble. OK, wow, somewhere a med school prof is patting my head...
Natalia 4 years ago (edited)
I know a person who has all his vitals reversed (heart and stomach right, liver left etc). No negative consequences, just had been turned down when giving exams to entry military.
The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
I came across a patient who has situs inversus when I was a medic. Thankfully, he wore a bracelet that told us or we would have defibrillated the wrong side 😬
Sarah 4 years ago
OK, am I the only one who sees a screaming monster with bat ears at the top of the rib cage, with a triangular goatee and skinny outstretched arms?
Fishwasher 4 years ago
i think i have it because if i feel for my heartbeat in the middle i can barely feel it
#25
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.
Friday 4 years ago
I have two dimples and so does my mum. I hated them as a child, but now I think they are cute
Helena R 4 years ago
Kid 1 has no dimples, kid 2 has one dimple, kid 3 has two dimples so using that logic kid 4 will have 3 dimples and kid five will have 5 dimples etc etc
Alditekim 4 years ago
Unless the cycle is completed. So kid 4 will be back with no dimples.
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HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
I have one dimple and i hate it, dimples are supposed to be cute but it makes me look so bad
Meghna Mohan 4 years ago
My mums side every one has atleast one dimple, and every alternate born person also has a chin dimple. My sister has 1 dimple, I have two deep ones, there are four tiny ones, fanning my lips, top and down, don't know if they count. I married a man with a deeper set of dimples and now my two sons have inherited one set each from the two of us, exactly the same location and look if it. My elder one also has the chin dimple or cleft ☺️
Wendy Lightner 4 years ago
I have dimples, my ex had one and both of my children have 2. I love my dimples!
#26
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.
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
Some people believe this is an indication that you will become rich. I have yet to see anyone who has.
Daria B 4 years ago
I have it too. Not like Paul Simonon, but enough to have had a fork stuck once. I was like, "okay, calm down, focus", and found the direction that got the fork out of my mouth. Luckily I was alone. ^^"
Lj 4 years ago
When I was young it was said that people who have this gap were liars. How silly...
Karla Torres 4 years ago
I heard that too...something about lies escaping the mouth through the gap.
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Allan Breum 4 years ago
Heh, I have this. It allows me to make a whistling sound that sounds like a jet engine spinning up.
#27
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%.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
I think it depends on what you classify as blonde. Is it truly white hair or just lighter (like dark blonde)?
Dave Jones 4 years ago
Some of us were born light blonde and then it turned brown in elementary school
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago (edited)
Well, if you take people into account that don't have blonde hair naturally, like black people, Asian, etc. it's logical that you get a lower percentage then when you take only people who can actually have blonde hair... Kind of like saying what percentage of people have frizzy hair and including white people...
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago (edited)
I had completely white hair until I hit puberty and then it became a mixture of golden and almost-white. I had a Swedish man tell me I had the most beautiful hair he had ever seen. But now in my 60s it’s the light brown of a former blonde, although I’m excited to see that I’m finally getting enough silvery gray hairs to make it look interesting.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
My parents keep telling me that as a baby my hair was so blonde it was almost clear 🤨
Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
My hubs had very blonde hair as a kid & it darkened to a dark dirty blonde in adulthood. Our son has the dirty blonde hair now but didnt start out with the light blonde as a baby
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
I had definite blond hair throughout childhood and my teen years. Now though, it's naturally turned brown.
#28
Only 10% of people have birthmarks. They're usually oval in shape and come in a coffee type color.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I used to have a big oval birthmark, on my lower back. But it faded as I got older and eventually disappeared altogether.
Kainaath Khan 4 years ago
My nephew has a big birthmark on his tummy and it keeps getting bigger and darker as he grows, no hair though.
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Birthmarks appear differently on different skin tones. You're leaving most skin tones on earth out, if you limit birthmarks to being "coffee colored."
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
true. some can be black, red, or pale brown. my mother is brown and has the entire spectrum of birthmarks.
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i have a large strawberry red birthmark on my scalp but since i have so much hair it's difficult to see it
Vicky Z 4 years ago
In my country they say that birthmarks are created during pregnancy when the mum is craving for something and doesn't eat it!! Probably it was a way to make sure their cravings would be fulfilled so the baby is not born with tons of birthmarks!!😅😅😅😅
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H Edwards 4 years ago
There are lots of different kinds of birth marks though. I have a pale reddish one on the back of my neck called a stork bite.
CCTheVampire 4 years ago
I've got one on my ring finger. My mother and father thought it was dirt when I was a baby and tried to clean it off lol
#29
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.
Friday 4 years ago (edited)
I’ve always gone left! I don’t know why apart from it just feels more comfortable for me
Simzabandz 4 years ago
your brain has gotten used to being accomodative of the next person who kisses you
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HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
I've never kissed anyone so i wouldn't know *laughs in exposing myself*
Crouching hippo hidden panda 4 years ago
This sounds a bit pseudo sciency..... want to fact check this one
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
lmao me neither, never been kissed gang where you at?
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#30
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.
Springy boi 4 years ago
me too and it's super friggin' annoying when one gets in my eyes and i have to keep one eye shut! i still love them but man are they annoying so i don't need false lashes
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mia rose waddington 4 years ago
i have a double set and it is really painful because when you cry it sticks to the side of your eye and it really hurts
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I always thought it seems impressive never thought it would be a problem wow
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Samantha Becker 4 years ago
I have a partial double row on the bottom, along with dry eyes, and my eyelashes hurt quite regularly. My eyelids, top and bottom, will get really puffy and irritated, and I have to pluck the extras.
Brooke Oneill 4 years ago
The idea of plucking eyelashes makes me cringe. Doesn't it hurt unbearably?
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Cupcake168 4 years ago
*Still counting how many people alone on this site have multiple rows of eyelashes.*
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
You can achieve this effect with a chemical I will not name. I won't name it because it also makes you vomit blood.
#31
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.
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
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?
ThatGuv 4 years ago
Setting up a petition to have it officially changed to Vulcanism!
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Springy boi 4 years ago
my baby cousin has elf ears and i call her one of santa's elves as a little nickname
Monday 4 years ago
It's not corrected by choice, it corrects itself as the ears grow. The post phrased it poorly.
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Bad phrasing in the post. It corrects itself as the kid grows, nobody is surgically rounding a bunch of infant ears.
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#32
Only 35% of people have 20/20 vision. 2/3 people cannot see perfectly.
Doggo Gal 4 years ago
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.
Sabienn 4 years ago
I've never heard of this way to describe someones vision, could you (or someone else) explain it a bit better? Does this mean that your dad is near-sighted, and your brother far-sighted? The way I'm used to vision descriptions, is with positive and negative numbers... Positive would mean that the person is far-sighted, negative means near-sighted
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Pepper DeVoe 4 years ago
Funny story: I was at the doctor for a check up. During the eye test they asked me to read out the letters. I read every single one. The doctor looked at me weird, and i said "what?" He said "you just read the manufactures phone number at the bottom of the page"
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Next step x-ray vision and you are superman! Or superwoman
Load More Replies... Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
I had 20/20 until my 40s when I started to need reading glasses. Everyone I'm related to needed glasses by second grade, so I did pretty well.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
my brother has 20/20 vision, but the eye doctor lied and told us he needed glasses so we paid for glasses for them not to help him at all. without my glasses or contacts i can barely see a foot in front of my face
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
20/20 is not the best vision either. I wonder if these stats are for both eyes or just one?
#33
25% of people have perfect teeth and never need braces or any orthodontics. 45% of children need braces, but 75% need orthodontic care.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
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?
H Edwards 4 years ago
I had 4 teeth removed and braces for almost 4 years. It was agony at the time, but I'm very happy not to have the teeth I see in old pictures. My bottom front teeth were so crooked that one of them was almost sideways in my mouth, and my top teeth stuck out like a rodent. It may have been cosmetic, but I still think I would be very self-conscious with those teeth.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
So jealous. I needed a plate when I was younger (didn't help much) and it's looking like my son will need an expansion plate.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
I never needed braces. Luckily I inherited my dads perfectly aligned teeth. No, I don't have teeth like Julia Roberts but they are real and don't look like chiclets or Mr. Ed.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
I knew a gal with utterly gorgeous teeth. My orthodontist office all came to look at her when she came there with me once.
Call Me Mars 4 years ago
I actually have perfect teeth. My parents say I won't need my wisdom teeth removed.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
I had to have my wisdom teeth removed not just because of the pain but the would have pushed my straight teeth out of line.
Load More Replies... I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago
I think an orthodontist came up with that number to boost sales.
Load More Replies... Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
My teeth are pretty straight... nearly all my friends (we are like 11-13) have braces but I don't need any. Yet...
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Wow that 25% is so lucky. Right now I’m getting dental care because I have an underbite, which is when your bottom teeth are in the front. I think that’s pretty rare too.
#34
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.
Violet Smith 4 years ago
Google "Schaeffer's Test" and you can get a simple video showing how to determine if you have this muscle. I don't have it. The article I read had a different figure, stating that up to 30% of people lack it, and that the medical establishment has accepted it as a vestigial muscle. You might have it in one arm, both arms, or none.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
Oddly , this is also how you can tell if your bearded dragon is a male or female . Not their palm though, their tail lifts while the front 3/4 of the body held down
Bored Doggy 4 years ago
I have it! I thought it was rare but then I noticed it said 14% DON'T have it. guess i'm not as special after all :(
#35
6% of people can vibrate and rapidly shake their eyeballs back and forth.
lunar eclipse 4 years ago
Do it while talking to someone so eye contact is confusing
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𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
one of my classmates could do this and i was always so jealous of him
#36
10% of people can touch their nose with their tongues. In medicine, this is called the Gorlin sign.
#37
20% of people are double jointed. This is thought to be genetic and due to a variation in collagen in your connective tissues.
Lauren W. 4 years ago
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.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
The next image has skin with goosebumps and no geese. 0.0
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Bow, I’m a Slytherclaw 4 years ago
Can anyone do that thing where they bend the thumb back onto their wrist? I can, I used to think it was something everyone could do, until everyone complained how it creeped them out.
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
i had fun being with the extra flexibility...then came arthritis at the ripe age of 29.
Sandra Bartsch 4 years ago
These people should make some research regarding Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome or Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
Brechje Geutjes 4 years ago
I agree with that. I have Ehlers Danlos syndrome myself. But not every one who is hypermobile has also EDS or HSD.
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I'm one of them. While it's really cool when you're young, it causes joint problems as you age, because the tendons don't stop the joints from hyperextending.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
Joint hypermobility syndrome is an extreme form of this where lots and lots of the joints are like it. i have it. 6 or 7 of my fingers, 1 or 2 toes (i think. it's hard to tell cause it feels so natural), my jaw, and both hips either pop out or bend far beyond the normal. also my elbows and knees hyperextend a bit, and i can touch the floor with my palms without bending my knees while my feet are together. the only downside is the joint pain. 20% of people with joint hypermobility syndrome have hypermobile ehler-danlos syndrome.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
The joint pain is zero fun. I love taking long walks but once my knees decide they want to slide around, the walk is over and I'm limping back home :c
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glowworm2 4 years ago
I can make my elbows meet and twist my arm around in creepy ways. Also, yes, I can lick my elbow.
Alastor the radio demon 4 years ago
I CAN DO WHAT THE PICTURE IS DOING ON MY RIGHT AND LEFT HAND :D
qwerty 4 years ago
Same! 7/10 fingers, exempted fingers being my right pinkie and both thumbs.
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4% of people are colorblind. Color blindness occurs in 8% of men and 0.5% of women.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
So if you live in Mexico there's no difference(obviously joking about Hollywood movies)
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
There was a kid in my 5th grade glass who was actually colorblind. He could still see color, but when I would see something blue, instead he would see purple. And when I saw yellow, he saw pink.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Not gonna lie, I don't see much of a difference in those 2 pictures... Granted, I AM colorblind.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
The scene in Little Miss Sunshine where he finds out he's colour blind kills me.
Catlady6000 4 years ago (edited)
There are glasses that can help with this. I just bought a pair for my son-in-law. Best gift I have ever bought for any body, ever. He cried. Do make sure they are for this type of color blindness you have though. There a a few different varieties-faded colors, black and white with no color, red/green, etc
#39
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.
MustardLemon 4 years ago
yup i just have to imgine biting into a popsicle. lol i liteally got goosebumps writing this.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
When I get kissed on either side of my neck, so left side gets goodies on left leg!
No. 4 years ago
i have to have my bladder partially full, then i tense 'the area' and that sends some weird shiver up my body which gives me goosebumps if im not too hot
Amy Dodds 4 years ago
Yes that's what I do too! Butt and bits clench and it sorta travels through you and Boom goosebumps.
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Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
I get cold when I laugh a lot and don't move, and when I get cold I get goosebumps
Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 4 years ago
I can give myself goosebumps by controlling the muscles on my upper back. For some reason it works better when I'm tired.
Violet Smith 4 years ago
I can do this, but I do it with the muscles in my jaw and back of my scalp/skull.
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Sky Render 4 years ago
Again, I had no idea this was so rare... I'm learning all sorts of interesting things about myself today.
#40
5% of people have a double hair whorl.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
How many people have a triple whirl, one of my brothers had 3 and was nicknamed bowling ball.
#41
Only 12% of people dream in black and white.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Me too! I didn't start dreaming in color until I started taking anti-anxiety meds, and let me tell you, it freaked me out! (I still dream in black and white about 1/3 of the time, more if I've watched a B&W movie or TV show right before going to bed.
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Marcia Cash 4 years ago
Before colour TV and movies were common, I dreamed in black & white. When we got colour TV, all the kids in the neighborhood were asking each other "Have you started dreaming in colour?" It was very noticeable.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
I normally dream in color, but on occasion I’ve dreamed in black and white.
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
When I dream, I don't actually see things. It's more like I can sense the location of objects around me. I can still hear, but I just know where things are instead of seeing them. Whenever I try to open my eyes in my dream, I open my eyes in real life and lose the dream.
#42
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.
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
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...
InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)
Why would you not just say you were trying to lick your elbow? I imagine she would try as well then you can both laugh at each other after.
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Bored Turtleduck 4 years ago
And some of the remaining 22% have tried this before
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wyatt richards 4 years ago (edited)
So i'm able to do this but i'm not sure if I have a short upper arm or if it's because of how stretchy I am (putting my foot behind my head and putting my arm behind my back then raising it up to touch the back of my head)
CalicoKitty 4 years ago (edited)
I know someone who can! They practically smush their elbow into their face, it's mildly terrifying. Edit: On the subject of weird arm bending, anyone here able to put their palm to its own shoulder?
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
You mean put your palm on your back where your shoulder blade sometimes stick out like stubby wings? If yes, I can both over and under. I can also turn my feet almost, but not quite completely backwards...and pinch people with my toes.😁
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#43
10% of people are left handed. Left handed people tend to live shorter lives.
J. F. 4 years ago
The shorter lives part is due to accidents with tools and machinery designed for right handed persons. Car accidents are also a big thing as we lefties have a harder time estimating distances
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
it's true, i'm a leftie and always estimate wrong by 2 inches
Load More Replies... Phero 4 years ago
More men than women are left handed. Women live longer than men. Therefore Left-Handed people (who are more Men than Women), live shorter lives. Simple math. Nothing to see here, move on :-)
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago (edited)
Correlation, not causation. I don't think simply using a different hand alters your lifespan, as there are soooo many factors that go into how, when, & why someone dies. I really doubt your handedness plays a significant role in that unless it's the 1600s & you're accused of being a witch. Of course, like others said, accidents can be caused by equipment designed for right-handed people, but surely not all of them are fatal like the article post implies (if this is what it's referring to).
Michelle M 4 years ago
But I once read that left handed people live longer. Better to take what one reads from the internet with a bit of salt
Jillian J 4 years ago
I was reading this aloud to my left-handed six yr old brother and he started crying :(
Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
Oh no! Tell him that it was only a false fact and he will be able to live a long life filled with lots of joy!
Load More Replies... Sky Render 4 years ago
The lifespan of a sinistral was much worse in the days when left-handedness was treated as a crime against nature! And yes, the word "sinister" does in fact derive from that archaic term for "left-handed".
That_WeirdBunBun! 4 years ago
:( But, my dad has long life genes on his side! I hope he doesn’t die early.
#44
25% of the population snores regularly.
Giulia 4 years ago
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 ;_;
Misstaken138 4 years ago
I'm the exact opposite. I can't sleep if there's noise outside, but my husband's snoring puts me to sleep. It's bizarre.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I married that 25%. Why we're still marri3ed is sometimes a puzzle at 3 AM when I really just want to scream, 'HOW do you sleep through your own noise!"
Lauren Newman 4 years ago
I also snore and am left handed, lol. I wish I didn't snore though. Super embarrassing
Load More Replies... Percabeth Forever (she/her) 2 years ago
I have slept through multiple thunderstorms that have shaken the house, but I only can sleep between 8:30 and 6:30, unless I am very tired. I don't know if I snore or not tbh
#45
8.4% of people have a counterclockwise hair whorl on their head, while the majority has a clockwise one.
Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
My son has both.. so when I cut his hair short he has a natural hair crest...
Mz Phit 4 years ago
Oddly enough, the study of hair whorls in horses is pretty popular in the equestrian community. The differences in whorls are correlated to personality traits of the horse- (how the whorls are placed on the head/how many ). I'm not so sure how much I believe and how much is a self fulfilled prophecy, but I do tend to be a bit more on guard when riding a new horse with two stacked whorls. ( horse lovers- check out "getting in T Touch" by Linda Tellington Jones- which explains these theories)
Bonnie Sinclair 3 years ago
My daughter has two clockwise on one side and two counterclockwise on the other side. Two of them are in the front and she has never been able to wear bangs The other two are on the top of her head.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
The counterclockwise hair whorl is sometimes connected to certain syndromes. It's not quite clear why, but there does seem to be some connection.
#46
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.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
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
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I've got the tree-climbing muscle in both wrists, and the chimp feet. Too bad I'm afraid of heights.
Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
Like not forcing you or anything, but you could try start small and face your fear? I am creeped out of the dark, yet every now and then I force myself to walk through my room in darkness... Like I said, just a tip.
Load More Replies... Alastor the radio demon 4 years ago
I can do that I actually walk around the house like that to look taller
#47
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.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Another common cause of an outie bellybutton is an umbilical hernia.
Lauren Newman 4 years ago
Yes my youngest son (who is almost 2) has this. His doctor said we can get it fixed but suggested waiting to see if it corrects itself (she's hoping that as his stomach muscles grow stronger, this will subside). But he'd have to undergo anesthesia for the surgery, and I'm not ready to do that. It doesn't seem to bother him in the least.
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Huh. I thought it was based on how good the obstetrician was. Interesting!
Kainaath Khan 4 years ago
My husband has a crater, like he can store about 10-12 drops of water in it. I call it micromini swimming pool.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago (edited)
Hate to be horrible but find an outtie on a guy a real turn off for some reason. Stupid I know.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Your not the only one but not just on guys. I know they can't help it and I am ashamed to say that when I was a young teen, I broke up with a boy coz he had an outie bellybutton. Not my proudest moment.
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Marta Fleter 4 years ago
Is it true that you can "untie" your belly bottom? This saying freaked me out as a kid and I don't even know if it's true!
June 4 years ago
Mine was an outie when I was a kid, then became an innie, anorexia made it an outie again and a recent surgery made it definitely an innie since one of the laparoscopy scar somehow "stuck" it x)
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
really? women in my family put a little ball of cotton in the bellybutton then a band to new born babies to keep it from popping... is that not a thing?
Kakofonyx 4 years ago
It is still the practice in many cultures, I believe.
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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.
Nicky 4 years ago
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!
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
On behalf of nerds like me: Thank you for allowing them to look!
Load More Replies... Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago
Now I wonder how many ribs Adam had, before he (fortunately I would say) "lost" one of them🤔
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago (edited)
I have extra bones in my ridiculously flat feed. My podiatrist thought it was pretty cool.
Alice Platzer 3 years ago
Grmpf. I have the 11th and 12th rib pair missing, along with the vertebrae which go with 'em. Thanks a lot.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
When I had x-rays prior to my hip replacement in 2008, my Doc asked when I'd had back surgery. Um - never. I'd had lower back problems that sometimes would render me useless, but never anything requiring surgery. Apparently, one of those times included a disk collapsing. I'm completely missing the disk between my L4 & L5 vertebrae.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
According to my vet, It's a lot more common in dogs and they call it a 'floating rib'.
#49
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.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I can do this with both my thumbs. This list is making me feel like I'm some sort of freak.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago
This is my 11th... not sure how weird to feel right now!
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Felicity Lemon 4 years ago
Like sorry to ya'll who can do this but I just get queasy when I look at people do that..,
#50
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.
Patsy 4 years ago
Yeah, like Ms. M said, Bowie's was due to a blow to the head causing permanent dilation of his pupil.
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Marta Fleter 4 years ago
I have this! I only noticed it in my early 20s when I started doing make up daily and freaked out. I was scared it was a brain tumor or something. Turned out I'm fine 😅 it's not always obvious, depends on the light.
U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️ 2 years ago
i think mine has a very little difference but noticeable.
I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago (edited)
Anyone can do this easily by having different lighting on each eye. It happens all the time but people don't usually notice/make a note of it.
#51
22% of people can wiggle one ear, and only 18% can wiggle both. The ability to do so may be inherited, however, it can also be learned with practice.
Daria B 4 years ago
Me too, me too! Both and the same time AND separately ♡
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bro idk 2 years ago (edited)
some kid in my class can and we found out in science and someone else tried to do it and my science teacher was just like “noah you can’t do it as well as chace” and then chace just wiggled his ears. i can kinda but it’s like.. weird. i can feel the muscles at the back of my head move and it makes just the tip of my nose twitch meaning my glasses move.
U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️ 2 years ago
me and my older sister can wiggle both. she has more control over hers than i do tho.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I can do both of mine, though I learned how to do it with some practice (math class was kind of boring).
Claire Armstrong 4 years ago
Wow! I can do both but I don't know if anyone else in my family can! Need to do a little digging on that lol!
#52
Less than 1% of people have perfect pitch - the ability to identify the exact note when you hear it. A lot of people believe you're born like this however some researchers have hypothesized that you can learn this later in life as well.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
My youngest brother has it and it's not nearly as much fun as it sounds. He hates live music because musicians and artists may sing ever so slightly off-key or hit just the wrong notes and it's really jarring to him. That said, it made him a pretty good cellist.
Ginny Weasly 4 years ago
I have it. It makes it soo much easier to play trombone because you know where to put the slide.
Load More Replies... 𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
I listened to a podcast about this- apparently people who were raised speaking a pitch-accent or tonal language (Vietnamese, Thai, Mandarin, and Cantonese) are more likely to have perfect pitch than people who were not.
Harri Sorjonen 4 years ago
In china almost all have perfect pitch because language is based on pitch. So practice makes perfect.
bro idk 2 years ago
isnt it more than that? like didn’t they find out people who learnt languages like mandarin i think, especially as a first language, had perfect pitch as well? they had a much higher percentage in how many people could identify a note. did that change the overall percentage? or was it just they had a higher percentage just by themselves?
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I didn't realize I was that special!! I have a feeling the percentage is higher. And if you add in Relative Pitch, even higher.
U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️ 2 years ago
it’s more like 4% in american children and much higher, like 60% in mandarin speaking children. similar with vietnamese, thai, etc.
Load More Replies... Marcia Cash 4 years ago
It's fun when you can sing or play an instrument, but painful when you listen to modern bands.
#53
Less than 1% of people have an uncombable hair syndrome. It's characterized by frizzy hair that can't be combed down. It's normally seen in people that are younger and usually have blonde hair.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
No, he chose to have his hair like that to draw the attention away from his punchable face.
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Princess Toadstool 4 years ago
I remember watching an inside edition video on this!! Thankfully the condition goes away once the child hits puberty
Isabel Care 4 years ago
Do they try going to a hairdresser that has experience with African hair types? Some of the same treatments might help.
#54
10% of adults in the US have never had a cavity in their life, however it's estimated that 1 in 4 adults have cavities that are untreated.
bro idk 2 years ago
so this is kinda related. you know on your teeth how it’s like got that indent in the middle? kinda like a little pool? so mine are actually massive and my dentist filled them in in some of my teeth so food doesn’t get stuck and i end up with cavities. i can’t remember if i had a cavity when i was little or not or if it was my dentist filling in those little indents. very recently did i have those filling in things. i can’t remember if when i was little tho it was to make the indents smaller or because i had a cavity.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
My husband rarely goes to the dentist, he has a hard time because of his gag reflex. I have to remind him to brush. He's never had a cavity! Wtf?
#55
7% of people can tickle themselves. Usually your brain does not let you tickle yourself, but some experts believe that if you push your tongue up against the roof of your mouth you can actually tickle yourself, because you're not used to that sensation.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I can tickle myself without pushing my tongue against the roof of my mouth. I love the soft sensations of running my fingers gently up and down my arm but it can get very ticklish if I do it too soft and when that happens I also get goosebumps.
Claire Armstrong 4 years ago
That DOES work and it's a horrible sensation, I hate it but for some reason I keep bloody doing it over and over again lol!
Quinn Alexander 4 years ago
I can't tickle myself to laughing, but I CAN give myself an uncomfortable feeling drawing my finger across my sensitive bits. I think this can become a learned reaction from people who aren't used to being touched - I myself am Autistic and despise being touched by anyone, much less myself.
U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️ 2 years ago (edited)
it’s more common with people who have schizophrenic-like symptoms because of a disconnect between body and mind. i can tickle myself not just with my tongue on the roof of my mouth. that means only the roof of your mouth can be tickled with your tongue, other body parts can’t be tickled but i can
that one Harry Potter girl 4 years ago (edited)
I can do it without my tongue but only on my stomach, not anywhere else
#56
Only 6% of people have a cleft chin - a dimple in the middle of your chin. It is usually genetic, you can actually add or remove one with surgery.
Friday 4 years ago
It makes me sad that some people want to erase their uniqueness with surgery
Jaded Queen 4 years ago
What is your uniqueness is others inability to belong someplace. Humans r ugly either which way until they can evolve
Load More Replies... Claire Armstrong 4 years ago
Wow! A lot of people in my family have these! I had no idea how rare it was!
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I have a small dimple. I used to hate it, but now I like it.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Ah, I'm surprised I have several of the things on this list. This one, touching my nose with my tongue, the wrist muscle thing.
#57
Only 1.5% of people have a single palm crease. This is often found in males and is a hereditary trait.
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
I have this as well! I was very amused when I read a palm-reading book & it said to "beware of he with the single angry slash across his palm" with a drawing of my hand!
Jaded Queen 4 years ago
In my palm reading book, it signifies intelligence. Lol
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Charlie K 4 years ago
It is called a Simian Line and can be associated with diagnosing Down's Syndrome, as well as other tests like amniotic fluid. I was positive for both tests but wasnt born with Down's? So yes it is associated but not indicative of. Several notable people have it so of course palmistry is interested in the trait. I guess there's intrigue as it's rare.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Didn't John F. Kennedy have it? I feel like some modern president had it...
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Charlie K 4 years ago
I replied in a normal comment but the info is the same :)
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Marcia Cash 4 years ago
"Simian" palm, supposedly a marker of violent personality. I only know two kids with it, and they are both a bit sociopathic. But then, I have a double life line and am supposed to live to 120, so we'll find out if that's true in another 50 years....
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
I have one on my right and two on my left hand
#58
Only 1% of people clasp their hands this way.
BlackestDawn 4 years ago
Huh guess I am as well, neither of these feels particularly hard or strange to me. Would be nice if they explained what the actual difference is between them.
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Charlotte A. 4 years ago
I think they mean a person's "preferred" way of clasping their hands. Like what you'd do "automatically" if someone asked you to clasp your hands. Interestingly I kept trying and doing it completely differently from all of these, until I finally made the 49% one.
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#59
5% of people have a cracked tongue. It develops in birth or childhood, and is associated with Down syndrome and malnutrition.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I have had fissured tongue since a child as well as geographical tongue and I can guarantee you mine is not caused by malnutrition or down syndrome.
Jack Corbyn 4 years ago
I find close ups of the inside of people's mouths revolting, with or without a cracked tongue. I wonder what percentage of the population feel as I do.
Hutt'nKloas 4 years ago
You also may develop it, temporarely, while suffering from a decreased immune system
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
It also causes sensitivity to sour and spice. Take it from Keith (try guys on yt) also whoo that pic is setting off my trypophobia WAY too much
#60
About half of the population can wiggle their toes individually. The big toe and little toe have individual muscles so it's easier to move them, but the middle toes are all controlled by one set of muscles so those are a lot more difficult to move.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
This is the best. I love doing this. So efficient.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 4 years ago
Not so fortunate, but I did train my toes to be able to grip. Makes picking up laundry off the floor a breeze!
sylvanticx 4 years ago
i can't, sadly, but my middle toes all bend super far back (> 90 degrees). is that normal?
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I can move my little toes individually but that's the only pne
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
I can roll each toe up and down in a wave, but not quite move each one by itself.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)
Never tried that before but I now realise I can't, oh well.
What do you think ?
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Fascinating post. Luckily I read it early in the morning so no one saw me trying to lick my elbow, wiggle my ears, flare my nostrils, etc.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Something else that is also rare: having both red hair and blue eyes, and it’s actually the rarest combo on earth. This is because red hair and blue eyes alone are both rare, and both parents have to carry the gene for the child to have red hair and blue eyes. I actually have red hair and blue eyes. Both my sisters have red-ish hair, but their eyes are not blue and their hair isn’t nearly as red as mine.
Wendy Lorimer 4 years ago
I have grey eyes and reddish hair. I hardly see anyone else with grey eyes.
Load More Replies... Joey Marlin 4 years ago
This was fun and I had quite a few of these. Going to celebrate my weirdness!
Ahsoka Tano 4 years ago
This was so cool! Today I learned that I have twelve of these, including a few that only one percent have.
T H 4 years ago
I found out recently that my blue/gold center heterochromia (blue eyes with a gold ring) is exceedingly rare. My family and I always called my eye colour “Blue Hazel.”
JustABoredwing 4 years ago
Does anyone know anything about sharper canine teeth? Mine are much pointier than anyone in my family.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
I don't know if it means anything. My dad had them too. When he was little my nephew wondered if I was a vampire. Never thought, I could have dressed up as a vampire on Halloween and not needed the fake teeth.
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Claire 4 years ago
I have at least 16 of these, I wonder if some are likely to be associated with each other? Morton's toe, hyper flexible, extra rib, dimples, eye brows, seeing extra colours, ear wiggling, touch tongue to nose, nostril flare, preauricular sinus, whistle, gap tooth, never needed braces, gleeking, goosebumps and snoring. I only had 3 wisdom teeth, which is quite rare as well, and a form of Synaesthesia where I experience pain as smells.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Fascinating post. Luckily I read it early in the morning so no one saw me trying to lick my elbow, wiggle my ears, flare my nostrils, etc.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Something else that is also rare: having both red hair and blue eyes, and it’s actually the rarest combo on earth. This is because red hair and blue eyes alone are both rare, and both parents have to carry the gene for the child to have red hair and blue eyes. I actually have red hair and blue eyes. Both my sisters have red-ish hair, but their eyes are not blue and their hair isn’t nearly as red as mine.
Wendy Lorimer 4 years ago
I have grey eyes and reddish hair. I hardly see anyone else with grey eyes.
Load More Replies... Joey Marlin 4 years ago
This was fun and I had quite a few of these. Going to celebrate my weirdness!
Ahsoka Tano 4 years ago
This was so cool! Today I learned that I have twelve of these, including a few that only one percent have.
T H 4 years ago
I found out recently that my blue/gold center heterochromia (blue eyes with a gold ring) is exceedingly rare. My family and I always called my eye colour “Blue Hazel.”
JustABoredwing 4 years ago
Does anyone know anything about sharper canine teeth? Mine are much pointier than anyone in my family.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
I don't know if it means anything. My dad had them too. When he was little my nephew wondered if I was a vampire. Never thought, I could have dressed up as a vampire on Halloween and not needed the fake teeth.
Load More Replies... Claire 4 years ago
I have at least 16 of these, I wonder if some are likely to be associated with each other? Morton's toe, hyper flexible, extra rib, dimples, eye brows, seeing extra colours, ear wiggling, touch tongue to nose, nostril flare, preauricular sinus, whistle, gap tooth, never needed braces, gleeking, goosebumps and snoring. I only had 3 wisdom teeth, which is quite rare as well, and a form of Synaesthesia where I experience pain as smells.
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