34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special

Did you know that only 1-2% of the world has naturally red hair? How about that less than 1% of the world’s population has heterochromia, or two different colored eyes? Did you know that the odds of having identical twins is about 3 in 1,000?

Although there are over 8 billion people on the planet, there are still certain traits we can have that make us unique. So in honor of all of those quirks that make us special, Reddit users have recently been sharing what rare statistics they’re a part of. Enjoy reading through these reminders that we’re all individuals with varied experiences, and be sure to upvote the statistics you can’t believe people are actually part of!

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I was raised in the foster system until I was 18. I am alive, never been to jail, in a very successful career, own a house, and I am a great mother, and in a very happy marriage.

shay-doe , Kindel Media Report

Final score:

428points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I'm 32 years out from my liver transplant and one of the rare few to have been successfully weaned off immunosuppressants.

TheRealMasterTyvokka , Tim Mossholder Report

Final score:

400points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special On a sour note, I have multiple sclerosis. On a sweet note, I'm one of the rare cases where daily treatments have seemed to almost make my brain lesions disapear in my scans now. They went from very large to barely there, and some have even completely gone away. I'll still always have the condition and will still always need to live life on the low and slow/chill so as not to bring on a relapse, but so far I count myself blessed given how things can be with this disease.

Spuzzle91 , Daniel Xavier Report

Final score:

352points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special My blood is both O- and CMV- meaning I can donate universally to both adults and babies.

_incredigirl_ , LuAnn Hunt Report

Final score:

344points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I'm a survivor of human trafficking. Roughly .5% of the population is currently trafficked.

Reddittttor123 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

302points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I am a Black woman (product of two Black parents) and I have both green eyes and blonde hair. Those dormant massa genes show up all over me!

Bubbly-End-6156 , Ono Kosuki Report

Final score:

283points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special Only 1% of couples experience recurrent miscarriages (3 or more). We are in that 1%!

On a positive note, we had a baby last year.

RecordHuman3660 , Leah Kelley Report

Final score:

269points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special My hair started going grey at 13. By the time I was 23 it was completely white.

Sweaty_Entertainer78 , Phil S Report

Final score:

245points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I was in foster care and graduated law school. Foster children are statistically less represented then any race group or disability group in college, let alone law school.

ipse_dixit11 , Unseen Studio Report

Final score:

244points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I’m a gay man born with no sense of style or fashion. It’s very sad.

Adcro , Godisable Jacob Report

Final score:

243points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I've never bought anything from Amazon.

intents_like_camping , Joshua Brown Report

Final score:

225points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I have 20/10 vision. Almost 50% better than 20/20 and in the top .05% of people. I actually have incredibly accurate night vision as well.

s1ayerzer0 , Skyler Ewing Report

Final score:

218points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I was slimed on Nickelodeon when I was a kid. I have never met another person in real life who can say this.

JuicyCiwa , nick.tv Report

Final score:

204points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I have prosopagnosia (faceblindness), a mild form. I think this is actually more common than people think, but some people don't know they have it. I didn't figure it out until I was like, 35. You just go through your life thinking you're a dumdum who's not paying attention, or not realizing that other people can recognize faces well.

I was also the first woman in the world to do my specific job.

weenertron , José Martín Ramírez Carrasco Report

Final score:

185points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I can bench 405lbs naturally with no support or spotter or same but 315 for 10.

Please don't downvote, I know it feels braggy but I'm so proud of this.

Edit to add, I weigh 200lbs.

Resident-Mortgage-85 , Frame Kings Report

Final score:

183points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I have a family member who was a 9/11 first responder. He is listed among the fallen, having developed an inoperable brain tumor secondary to exposure to the toxic materials.

farrenkm , Documerica Report

Final score:

169points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special Myself and my dad both have/had 3 sets of teeth. Baby teeth and then two sets of adult teeth.

Ceddy722 , Filip Rankovic Grobgaard Report

Final score:

164points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I have Aphantasia, the inability to picture things in my mind.

LostNTheNoise , JESHOOTS.COM Report

Final score:

162points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I’ve had breast cancer three times. Not recurrences.

JohnExcrement , Anna Tarazevich Report

Final score:

149points

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#20

34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I'm in my 60s and climb trees for a living.

theisntist , andriusm Report

Final score:

147points

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#21

Not me but my dad. He got the same cancer twice after a full bone marrow transplant and the doctor told him that was impossible. There’s definitely a case study about him as patient K.

kroxti Report

Final score:

143points

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#22

34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I’m ambidextrous. And have heterochromia. One green eye, one brown eye

pal_tech13 , wikimedia Report

Final score:

138points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I basically have no circadian rhythm. It’s called irregular sleep-wake phase and is mostly present in people who are blind or have brain damage. I have the sleep habits of a newborn baby - my life is a series of naps, and I sleep when I sleep and I’m awake when I’m awake and it has no connection to day or night. It also means I’m always tired. I’m also bipolar so the amount of sleep I manage to get in a day is inconsistent.

EDIT: I just remembered another one. I have duck feet that are caused by femoral retroversion (the angle of my femur and hip bones is off, which means my legs are rotated further out than normal), which is a pretty rare cause for duck feet. It also causes very bad flexibility issues in my ankles and hips.

ToBeReadOutLoud , Jamie Street Report

Final score:

137points

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#24

34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special Allergic to fermented alcohol (wine, beer, cider).

kripjewell , Wil Stewart Report

Final score:

121points

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#25

I've clinically died twice.

Chrischendo Report

Final score:

119points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I have retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction.

Meaning, I am physically unable to burp.

naughtydismutase , Sander Sammy Report

Final score:

118points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special When I was 15, I got the measles - my county hadn't seen it in over 30 years. And yes, I had my MMR vax.

bottomlesspi , Polina Tankilevitch Report

Final score:

111points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I can shoot water out of the corner of my left eye.

DeathSpiral321 , Amanda Dalbjörn Report

Final score:

104points

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#29

I survived a cardiac arrest.

72cuda Report

Final score:

97points

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#30

I had shingles while pregnant, which is very rare. Lucky for me, pregnancy turns down the intensity, I was able to avoid painkillers altogether, but still had open wounds on my back.

ConfettiBowl Report

Final score:

95points

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34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special I have a Bifid Uvula, aka the little flap in the back of my mouth is split so it looks like there are two of them.

JustAnotherAviatrix , Sergey Chetvertnykh Report

Final score:

92points

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#32

I have Anisocoria. That means i have very differently sized pupils.

AncientAshtray Report

Final score:

89points

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#33

34 People Who Are Part Of A Rare Statistic Share What Makes Them Special Not really a statistic, but I use my mouse backwards. Like facing the wrong way sorta thing. My mother taught me when I was young and I didn't realize it was wrong until like, middle school.

SirNickoBello , Frankie Report

Final score:

88points

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#34

My daughter and I have the same birthday.

Rooftop_Astronaut Report

Final score:

86points

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What do you think ?

motherbanana 1 year ago

I'm an identical twin and me and my twinsister gave birth on the same day.

26points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

I have 4 to 5 forms of synesthesia and one of them only occurs in 1-4 % of the population

14points

Strawberry Pizza 1 year ago

Ooh, that sounds cool! Could you elaborate for me? Can you, like, see sounds, or associate certain things with certain colours?

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Isaac Nemo 1 year ago

I never knew there were multiple types!

2points

Omiyaru 1 year ago (edited)

I have ideaesthesia, Imy thoughts often come in the form of feelings,(as in I understand the form of the thought, like building a phisical structure in my mind, and like if I can't figure out what's next or anything I can't fully understand breaks downmn into a amorphous shifting blob of angles, fog, liquid, or something, (best way I can put it into words) when listening to music I often can feel the sensation of a concept I also have some sort of mirror touch synesthesia, I can feel other people's sensationseven when it's on TV, once I saw in a TV show someone get their fist stabbed with a fork, my hand still aches from that, every so often., wasn't even my hand

1point

Kira Okah 1 year ago

I have cross-dominance, which is a 1% prevalence. Very commonly mistaken for ambidexterity, it is where you have different hand dominance for different tasks. I used to be ambidextrous in my writing but my primary school forced me to use one or the other because I was confusing the teachers. I now use a pen left handed but a mouse right handed. I use a fork right handed but chopsticks left handed. To go to the fun point, I use a longbow left handed and a sword right handed, so if I have to switch to sword I have to drop the bow because it's in my right hand =.=

11points

Jackie Lulu 1 year ago

I'm not sure what the difference is between the two is. I'm left-handed and right-footed. My left hand is for fine motor skills like writing, drawing, knitting, etc. My right hand/arm is for things requiring strength. And there are some things I can do with either hand, like ironing or stirring.

Frost the Icewing 1 year ago

I have that too I draw and write with my right hand and I prefer to type with my left.

Yer a witch 1 year ago

Same, and I just recently found out it had a name. Funny thing is that, in my family, there are two right handed, one left handed, one ambidiextrous and me.

0points

Unnamed Hooman 1 year ago

I have that too! I write and draw with my left, but whenever I play sports that involve holding something, always left handed. When I play hockey, I switch hands whenever I turn around

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