People Are Sharing The “Little Quirks” Their Bodies Have That No One Else Does, And Wow, Humans Are Weird And Also Kinda Amazing

The human body is a pretty fascinating machine. In r/AskReddit, when someone asked, “What is a little quirk about your body that you don’t think other people have?” the answers that rolled in were proof of that — and they weren’t your typical double-jointed answers, either. Here’s what people had to say:

1.“I’m literally hard-headed. I have no frontal sinuses, and where they should be is just bone. I never get sinus headaches.”

—Rocklicker13

2.“I’m not colorblind in any of my eyes, but I do see colors differently in both of them. My right eye sees colors more warmly and a little desaturated, whereas I see more vibrant and cold tones through my left eye.”

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—miss_wannadie

3.“When I laugh in a swimming pool, I start to drown. On holiday, I was swimming, and my partner kept making me laugh. The second I start laughing, I sink like a stone. It would be a great way to murder me if he ever decided to do so.”

—Ms_Central_Perk

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4.“I made it to 30 years old before this was noticed and pointed out to me. I was chugging water at dinner when my husband started laughing and asked, “Why are you doing that?” It turns out that when I swallow, one eyebrow rapidly twitches, but completely uncontrollably. Like my swallow reflex is hardwired to my eyebrow. It’s now my party trick.”

—TigerMonkeyTreeFrog

5.“Sometimes when I laugh or cry, I completely lose motor function in my hands, and they’re essentially useless clubs for the next five minutes until I calm down. It’s apparently a neurological thing associated with narcolepsy…but I’m not narcoleptic.”

“Edit: Damn, we’re all learning a lot about ourselves, huh? This is called cataplexy, so look it up if this happens to you!”

—alletannen

6.“My kidneys are attached to each other. I found out in a scan. It’s called a horseshoe kidney, apparently.”

—TPrice1616

7.“I can vomit at any time just with the power of my mind. When I was a kid, if I didn’t get my way, regardless of where I was, I would just start vomiting. One day, my grandma slapped the shit out of me in a K-Mart, and I never did it again.”

—Former_Balance8473

8.“I have one arm, two uvulas, and an extra rib.”

—bzsbal

“What in the IKEA human.”

—BigWoodsCatNappin

“This made me laugh!”

—bzsbal

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9.“I’m 29 and still have a baby tooth. One of the molars I had as a kid never fell out, so it’s an adult canine on one side and a child’s molar on the other.”

—PeachyPesco

10.“I have chunks of metal that got embedded into my body, which slowly work their way out over time. I got one to pop out of my hand last night.”

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—Thadlandonian13

“This happens to my dad, too! But not all over his body, just his pinky on his right hand.

His hand got slammed in the trunk of a car that nearly severed his pinky when he was a kid. It got reattached and made functional, but there was this wire they used for stability that ran the length of his pinky and into the palm of his hand.

It was supposed to work its way out as it healed, but it never did. Over the course of the last 60ish years since it happened, he’s had tiny little wire pieces slowly make their way to the tip of his pinky. I’ll see him picking at something on his finger, and he’ll pull out a little 3 cm piece of wire, LOL.”

—vixiecat

11.“My second and third toes are conjoined 3/4 of the way up. Can’t move ’em independently, and yes, I’m a good swimmer.”

—MinorThreat5351

12.“If I lie on my back for 10 minutes or more, my whole right leg goes to sleep. It started after my C-section, so it’s probably nerve damage, but it’s just a weird thing that I don’t think my insurance would care to address.”

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—Salty_Feed_9180

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13.“I physically cannot vomit.”

—Comfortable_Baby9901

14.“I don’t have a sense of smell! I have no memory of ever smelling anything. It doesn’t matter how strong the smell is: perfume, gasoline, rotten food, nothing.”

—lemoncry_

“There’s a whole subreddit for this: r/anosmia.”

—Wild-Lychee-3312

15.“I have a red birthmark on my face that swells up about four weeks before I get a positive pregnancy test. It has a 100% accuracy rate with all four of my kids.”

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—callmeselinakyle

16.“I have one attached earlobe and one not attached.”

“Edit: OK, wow! There are a lot of us! Mismatched ear gang represent!”

—DatesForFun

17.“I’ve got super smell or something. I can diagnose people.”

“Low blood sugar (diabetes) smells like rotten chemical cleaner. High blood sugar smells like heated PLA filament. Slightly sweet.

Ear infections smell like Camembert cheese.

Strep throat smells like yeasty bread and coins held in a sweaty hand combined.

Pregnancy has this sweet musty smell to it. Like the mildest plum or nectarine. I’ve gotten in some very awkward situations when I asked when someone was due, and they didn’t know they were pregnant yet.

If someone has a cold, pneumonia, gastrointestinal issues, infection, or other ailment, and I can smell it, it’s bacterial. If I can’t smell the illness, it’s viral, which made COVID extra-freaky!

Had a second-grade girl in my class, my first year of teaching, who had seizures a few times a week; they were usually absence ones, and she would recover fairly quickly. I could smell one coming with a 10-15 minute warning from the other side of the classroom. She occasionally also had a different tonic seizure and would go temporarily blind for a few hours afterwards. Those I couldn’t smell coming.”

—BanjoChick

18.“My collarbone on one side can just pop in and out from my sternum. Never injured it, but I can hyperextend my left arm if I pop it out. It helps a lot when I have an itch on the weird part of my back, LMAO. No pain with it either, just sometimes feels funky if it pops out when I don’t mean for it to.”

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—ashimo414141

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19.“I used to be very ticklish, but I didn’t like being tickled. One day, as a teenager, I just convinced myself I wasn’t…and now, I’m not.”

—Independent-Fig-4414

20.“I knew a teen whose body temp normally ran 100°F. When things reopened after the pandemic, people had their temperatures checked very often. Where I work, we’d have to check the kids’ temps before their driving lessons or road test. Anything above 100°F was considered possibly infected, and the DMV would refuse their driving test. The kid brought in a doctor’s note stating that 100°F was within normal limits for him, just so he could test to get his license.”

—Dick_of_Doom

21.“If I go from indoor light or from the shade into direct sunlight, I sneeze. Moving on a sunny day is a fun time when I’m around.”

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“Edit: For some of the comments/questions, this isn’t looking at the sun to sneeze, it’s walking outside and immediately sneezing when it’s sunny. Some have said it’s hereditary, but I’m the only one doing it at the family reunions.”

—Ichoosethebear

“My dad, I, and my son all do this. It’s called the photic sneeze reflex.”

—saguarosun

22.And finally, “I can shake my eyeballs.”

—walkaflocka94

“Voluntary nystagmus. I can do this too!”

—TheThiefEmpress

Have you heard about any of these before? Any “quirks” of your own to share? Let us know in the comments, or fill out the anonymous form below.

Note: Responses have been edited for length/clarity.

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