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We often hear that each person is unique, and to some extent, that’s true. We all possess traits that are individual to us, like the iris of an eye (even our own two irises don’t match each other), the print of a lip, the way we walk, or even our voice.
But some appear to be more special than others, putting them in the 0.1% of the human population who have conditions like inverted internal organs or speaking backwards.
Out of their own curiosity, a person online started a discussion about this and encouraged more people to share their stories of the unique features they possess. Scroll below to marvel at the most unexpected ones, and who knows, maybe you’ll find out you also belong to the special 0.1%.
While you're at it, make sure to check out a conversation with Jackaboya07, who took this topic to Reddit in the first place.
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#1
Survivors of pancreatic cancer! Edit: This blew up more than I expected. My story is on my profile. I counsel people going through this now. Please PM me if you’d like to talk. The best advice I can give is to go to a place that specializes in these types of cancer, like MD Anderson in Houston. There are several in the US. They have the best doctors, the best imaging equipment, access to more clinical trials, etc. I was given six months to live in my hometown. Six years later after chemo, radiation and Whipple surgery, I am going strong. My risk of recurrence started dropping at two years, and now the risk is less than 10%.
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#2
I have exploded 3 times (IED, old soviet landmine, and a rocket strike on my gun truck). I don't think theres a lot of people who can say that who still possess all of their limbs.
EDIT: since this comment blew up (pun intended) I will not respond to people catfishing in direct messages and I am not interested in your onlyfans. (srsly, like 6 just today, go away.)
#3
I can speak backwards. Say a sentence and I will say it backwards immediately. If you record me and play it back in reverse, you can hear your original sentence pretty well.
Bored Panda reached out to Jackaboya07, the person who started the discussion in the first place, and kindly agreed to talk more about it with us.
Naturally, we wanted to find out what sparked his curiosity about such a topic. He told us that he came up with this post because he ran out of skills to learn and was looking for new ideas that could set him apart from 99.9% of people in the world.
"I posted it to get ideas, find out what other people were up to, and give them a chance to share their hobbies, skills, and life experiences that made them unique."
#5
I've spent more time climbing trees than 99.9% of humans. I'm an arborist and tree trimmer, who has been climbing since 1981, and plan to retire in 3 years or so. Everyone else who was doing it when I started is either retired or has younger people do all the climbing, but I refuse to let the kids have all the fun!
#6
People diagnosed with clinically-definite MS who have a disability score of zero.
Most people diagnosed with MS have at least some disability. For many it's low, but not zero, because the medication reduces the effects of the illness. For some, the medication does very little and they can be profoundly disabled.
I was diagnosed and started medication in 2008. Since then my disability score has been checked every 6 months by my neurologist, and has always been exactly zero. I'm just one of the very lucky ones who responds very well to the medication.
He, too, has rare abilities that not a lot of people can master, like solving the Rubik's cube in under 16 seconds. "Another reason for this post was to find people who shared talents with me, as I’ve always had a big interest in learning useless skills, to the point where my friends accuse me of having too much free time.
A few of these involve the Rubik’s cube, which I’m able to solve in under 16 seconds, or one-handed in 40, or even my biggest achievement so far, possibly in my life, learning to solve a fully scrambled Rubik's cube blindfolded, something very few people have ever been able to do.
I also learned simpler skills like basic card tricks, shuffles/flourishes, and how to juggle, all of which can be learned in only a few hours if you put your mind to it. I think my main point from this was that it’s not that hard to be in the 0.1% of people if you just find something that sets you apart."
#7
I'm in the top 0.17% of the world's population just for having natural red hair with blue eyes, if that counts.
#8
I have a condition called situs inversus where all of my internal organs are on the inverse side of the typical layout, so my heart and stomach are on my right, liver and gallbladder on my left, etc.
The occurrence is 1 in 10,000 so that actually puts me in the 0.01% range.
Edit: updated to accurate percentile
#9
Discovered Identical Twin, separated at birth, raised in another country (me) in our late 30s.
The redditor further explains that this online platform can be a great place for people to talk about their unique life experiences and even find those who share rare medical conditions.
"I think posts like these are why Reddit is such a popular platform since a comment that took me 30 seconds to type up gave so many people a chance to talk about not only skills they’ve learned that not many people can do but their life experiences, their stories, their medical anomalies, etc.
People sometimes don’t realize how much they stand out in this world until someone opens their eyes to it. At one point, I saw a comment about how someone felt nobody knew what it was like to have their medical condition (a severe allergy of sorts), but someone went out and found a whole subreddit dedicated to people like that user."
#11
I have incurable histamine intolerance. I have to be on a very restrictive diet, I am on all kinds of histamine blockers and STILL get histamine reactions that make me have to check out of life for at least half a day with no notice. It is so rare, there is no actual treatment plan for it so its a try-it-and-see approach.
He signed off by saying, "Despite 0.1% of all people looking like a low bar, it’s actually still 8 million total people, more than twice my country’s population, and everyone assumed that was me just underestimating the sheer amount of people in the world, but I had a reason for it.
I wanted to find more than just people at the very top of their field for everything. I wanted to find people who wanted a chance to talk about their lives even if they were only mediocre in their field."
#13
Losing people due to death. I'm 44 years old, and I tried to make a list of all the people I've lost about 4 years ago when my 2 month old nephew passed away. I wrote down 168 people before I stopped making the list because it was making me so sad, and I still occasionally remember people I didn't add to it. (just typing this makes me weep.)
#14
Not photographic memory but almost perfect Total recall from things that happened even 30-50yrs ago..I have hyperthymesia.
#15
I'm top 75 in the world at Guitar Hero. We have an online ranking system for scores now and I always finish at least in the top 100-50
#16
I suffer from a combination of illnesses that make me severely disabled in a certain way. I have been invited to several studies and doctors from several european countries. I have tested medication that's not on the market for over ten years. My disability doesn't have a name yet but will probably get named after one of my doctors who has known me for over half my life.
It started as a mental illness with psychosomatic seizures, during each seizure a part of my brain tissue disconnects and and sometimes dies (sorry for the terrible explanation, I am neither a doctor nor a native speaker).
Long story short, my doctors have found out about like twelve other people having a similar combination of symptoms, yet it was not properly documented or researched before. That kinda makes me a 0.1% of the population - sadly not on top!
#17
I am one of few with adults something called Harlequin syndrome. It’s harmless, literally does nothing beyond making half my face get red and the other half not red. So when I’m really hot and sweaty one side of my face will look like a tomato and the other half will look as if I hadn’t been hit at all. Completely normal.
There’s only like 1000 people in the U.S who have it. I could only find stats for the U.S so I don’t know the worldwide numbers but it’s pretty rare. Maybe not 0.1% but close.
(Note: I mention adults because it’s common in babies for the first like week of their life, but it usually goes away.)
#18
I’ve met the same actor 3 times at 3 different points of my life despite not working in the film industry so I gotta think I’m in the .1% of that occurrence.
Edit: it was Leo DiCaprio
#20
The amount of data I crunched for the SETI at Home project. 5 quintillion floating point operations. Sadly, no evidence of a signal from intelligence from space. I was in the top 99.97%.
#21
fun answer: bo burnham’s listeners on spotify (0.05%)
Neat answer: height! I’m a very tall woman (6’)
#22
My claim to fame: I am the only person on Earth that has or has ever had my given and surname.
While I do have a middle name, it is unnecessary.
How do i know? My dad's last name was common and of Polish origins. His parents emigrated to America from Poland. My dad was born about 10 years later in 1910. Both his parents died, 2-days apart, due to the 1918 pandemic. Dad was taken in by several foster homes and when he turned 14 he applied for a work permit. According to the County Clerk, dad did not exist. But, my dad knew his birthdate, he knew the doctor who delivered him and the clerk put 2 and 2 together and found a birth record with a scribbled name. The County Clerk then wrote what he believed the scribble said and that became his surname but it was unlike any other name. So, all of his children were born with the made up surname. At my age, mid-70's, I know every one of the 93 people who now share that made up surname and not a one of them has the same given name as me.
Donkey boi 9 months ago
On my birth certificate I have the number 8 in my name in place of a letter. Pretty sure that's fairly rare, if not unique. And yes, it is on all subsequent official documentation like passport & Drivers licence. But everything else in daily life I replace it with the letter, like my bank account, work place, bills, etc
Bartlet for World Domination 9 months ago
You will henceforward be known as Donkey 8oi ;)
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Rostit.. . 9 months ago
me too. My name is 100% unique in all ways. No one in the world has the same name. If anyone else has my last name, then I know them. Its that specific.
OpheliaPoe 9 months ago
Same. I might not KNOW them but the only other people with my last name that I don't know are my dad's cousins and a few of their descendents. Like OP I have a misspelled Polish last name and no one else has ever had my first name in the family.
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Jack Burton 9 months ago (edited)
I met an ederly patient in hospital named XX as given name. On her french official identity card. She explained me: she came in France after fleeing cambodia on a boat people in the 50's. When she arrived in France she tried to say her name to the border officer and he did not understand s**t. So he wrote XX and it's on all her official stuff till now.
You Can Call Me Al 9 months ago
I love this story, but I am incredibly, indescribably, desperate to know - as other pandas will be, I'm sure - please, please please tell us; what was the name of the doctor?
Caroline Nagel 9 months ago
It turns out my name in ubiquitous. Just look for my name on Facebook, there are hundreds of women with my name.
Miss Tinker 9 months ago
I was listed as a 'Famale' on my original 1975 birth certificate due to a typo. I was happy to leave it (always a fun fact to bring up!) but with the multitude of genders now an option I was advised to have it amended to 'Female' as it should have been 😅
Viva Shaymin 9 months ago
My last name is unique to my family because it was wrong translated at some point with a mix of 2 languages
MMM 9 months ago
I have a friend who had a similar (and probably common) issue with their surname. When their family was coming over on Ellis Island, the person taking names couldn't pronounce their name, so they shortened it to whatever they felt like. It changed their family surname forever.
Melissa Lionetto Baker 9 months ago
Same! My maiden name was spelled incorrectly at Ellis.
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CanadianDimes 9 months ago
As far as I’ve been able to find, there is only one other person with my first-and- last name combo. I have a fairly unusual surname and a not terribly common first name. She lives in Australia and back in the days when LinkedIn let you see who was looking at your profile, I could always tell when people were looking for her and not me by the spike in Australian views on my profile
Epsilon (he/him) 9 months ago
Same with me, but it is much simpler: my family is a small but influential one down in the south, and everyone with my last name is related to me. Idk the exact reason.
Raphapablap 9 months ago
My daughter probably has a unique name in the world. It's not a made up tragedeigh name, just that mine and my partner's surnames are an unlikely combination and she uses both
Melissa Lionetto Baker 9 months ago
My family (my maiden name)has a very unique last name as well. It was spelled incorrectly by a clerk at Ellis Island when my great grandparents came to America. As far as I know there are only about 23 of us in the U.S.
Noah Tatko 9 months ago
I have a not uncommon Polish surname, but I'm the only person of that combination I can find. When I google myself, the first 4 pages are completely about me.
day light 9 months ago
having an old defunct french (converted to a more english spelling) first name and a rare croatian last name, I kinda assume I'm the only one with this name combination. it's definitely nice in the case of making an email address or even using my first name as a username (not many people can say their @ is literally just their first name) but there's just too many people that have lived and died for me to really know if I'm truly alone in this combination
Shari Orser 9 months ago
My surname is quite unusual, too, and everyone with that last name is related, though some quite distantly. I don't know them all .
Kyra Heiker 9 months ago
I am the only person on the planet with my entire name, even leaving out my middle name I'm still the only person on the planet with my first and last name.
Robin Roper 9 months ago
My husband is an American Citizen Born Abroad and the spelling of his first name on his birth certificate, original passport, and baby photos is a different spelling than the one he has used all his life. I don't quite understand how his newer passports have the "incorrect" spelling but it's never been questioned.
Siobhan Gournay 9 months ago
I have a very unusual French surname paired with a pretty unique Irish name, and after years of research I'm yet to find anyone else in the world with my name! I don't have a middle name (thank god- my forename and surname are more than enough to navigate for most!)
Martinna Jaap 9 months ago
I don't have a middle name either. Neither do either of my parents. I've never known anyone other than us who don't have one until today. Very cool.
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Edda Kamphues 9 months ago
I'm fairly certain I am the only individual with my name in the world, given both my first and surname are super rare.
Restless panda 🇫🇮 9 months ago (edited)
Me too. Until some mf went and married a man with the same surname as mine (distant relative I guess). Same city too. I got so many things mixed up with her, some identification trouble as well..
FABULOUS1 9 months ago
My sisters legal name is my mothers name because she filled out the birth cert incorrectly. Even in school all her documents listed the name she has always gone by, it was not until she became an adult that her legal name was ever used on legal documents. So she legally didnt really exist on paper until she became an adult.
Suck it Trebek 9 months ago
Same with me. Whoever has my last name is related to me. When my grandfather was a young man he started his own business. But Polish people were highly discriminated against. So as not to lose customers he butchered our true last name to one that didn't in anyway sound Polish. My cousins and I often talk about going to court and having our true last names restored. We all feel like we lost some of our heritage because of what he (understandably) did to our family name.
MushroomHead22 9 months ago
actually giving the surname and given name would be helpful here. were supposed to just take your word for it?
Landithy 9 months ago
Cool! I have found exactly one other person with my first and last name combo (I don't have a middle name). Occasionally I wonder if I should go say "hi".
Martinna Jaap 9 months ago
You're another person without a middle name. Cool. Myself and both of my parents don't have one either. Haven't heard of many people without one. My folks used to joke that they were to poor to give me a middle name. Lol
Load More Replies... Bartlet for World Domination 9 months ago
I am the only one with my name too, as is my sister. Her name, yes, dad jokers :)
Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 9 months ago
My mom, her brother, and my cousin are the only people in Canada with their last name. It is, however, a common last name in India, which we have no connection to.
Libstak 9 months ago (edited)
Well, I don't know if it's a claim to fame at that level but it does tickle me that there are only 12 people in Australia with my surname and only 255 from my home "birth region". Aka combining, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia Hezergovina, Slovakia. In USA there are only 86, Canada only has 4 and i am pretty sure we are related as my aunty back in Slovenia talked about her and my dads cousin emigrating there like 50 years ago. Spain has NONE, that matters because some scammer claimed a relative in Spain died leaving me millions and to get in touch asap, lmao.
Eleanor Abernathy 9 months ago
Acording to Google, I´m the only living person with this name worldwide. My given name is very common, my surname is not (about 60 people worldwide). Another person with this name died 200 years ago.
Laxmi 9 months ago
According to Facebook, there are wayyy more than 60 Abernathy's worldwide. And atleast 100 Eleanor Abernathy. Sorry buddy you aren't special :(
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LillieMean 9 months ago
I have a similar situation. When my great-grandfather moved, he came up with a new surname that would fit better in the new country. If I were to marry my partner, my new surname would be even rarer. My first name is also rare, so combined with my last name I am the only one in the world. It has caused funny situations when the first name and last name are spelled wrong and I have to joke that one of my alter egos got mail again. The warranty receipts have also been confusing. I also don't know what percentage of couples are both left-handed. I know that left-handedness is more common in men, so as a woman I belong to some sort of minority.
#23
I was the top 0.1% percentile for math in my country back when i was in school. Not world sadly
#24
Number of books read. I am 37 and have read 7240 since 2001 (2766 of those are picture books though).I am in the top 30 for my home country on goodreads. Since I am a professional librarian with few social skills, this makes sense.
#25
I can type 180 wpm @ 99,% accuracy
170 @ 100% accuracy
At least i used to when i actually was the ultimate computer nerd.
I'm sure i could still hit 155 to 160 even now though.
Haven't seen anyone who could type faster even online.
I have an old a*s fb post from hitting like 175 @ 99%, on typingtest think I was ranked #1 out of 1.2mil i can't remember
If people end up reading this I'll end up linking it for proof lol
#26
Math, specifically fast mental math. I have gotten second and fifth out of over 10k people
#27
I am one of like 5-10 people that are on regular call for golf architectural history.
That combined with my knowledge of how to build and evaluate golf architecture in the field probably puts me into the .1%
#29
1 minute bullet chess.
And probably top 200 in the world over 50 years old, I am around 2500 on lichess.
veritas2011 on lichess
#30
Having encounters with different kinds of 'rare' marine life as a diver
What do you think ?
Auntriarch 9 months ago
Gosh, I'm the only person in the world who has never shaved their face, we must be twins!
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Maartje 9 months ago
If this shows twice, I apologize. I dare say I am the only person who this happened to : my pet crow removed a contact lens from my eye. ( his thinking: "that does not belong there, let me help you"). He did this without causing any damage to lens or eye. Getting the lens back from him was hell, crows like to play "keepaway".
Stardust she/her 9 months ago
One of my relatives is the second person on earth who made a company fully sustainable
Michael Largey 9 months ago
In what area am I in the top 0.1%? Well, there's wasted potential, obviously.
Justin Tyme 9 months ago
I have experienced two rattlesnake bites - one on the left hand and one on the left leg. I had a very minimal reaction both times and did not seek medical treatment. I am also immune to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.
PeepPeep the duck 9 months ago
I have nothing except maybe, I’m one of very few people outside of research and science to have helped a dying fly give birth. That was interesting
Kristal 9 months ago
I am an expert on 2 research studies as I'm the only one that is studying (or have studied) them in the world. I don't expect it to stay this way though, researchers gotta research.
TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago
How do you know you're the only researcher on 2 subjects ? Research that...
Load More Replies... E W 9 months ago
This is very morbid but, I believe I might be one of a handful of people who have seen both Space Shuttle disasters, (Challenger and Columbia), in person. I was in elementary school in Brevard County, FL when Challenger happened, and I was living in North Central, Texas when Columbia happened.
EmBree 9 months ago
After years of illness my husband finally met a foreign Dr that managed to diagnose him. It's a rare genetic illness and my husband is the only one in our country that has it. Talking to the Dr I half joked and asked if he could diagnose me too. He asked for my symptoms and I was diagnosed with a rare genetic illness, and I'm the only one in the country that has it. The risk of us passing it on to our children was 50/50 meaning they risked having both genetic conditions. None of them have either of it. Still, our kids have decided to not have kids of their own. I fully understand why.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 9 months ago
I'm the only person to have fully admitted to my crime, and to the fact I deserved to be in prison. Even the other people who admitted to being guilty would blame their lawyer, the person who turned them in, or anyone else. Nope. I did it. I deserved what I got.
pasej41913@bustayes.com 9 months ago
Oh you were in prison? I don't think you've ever mentioned it.
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Roan The Demon Kitty 9 months ago
As someone with: Autism, Schizophrenia, DID, Green eyes, Red hair, Fibromyalgia, Porphyria, speaking more than 2 languages... I think I'm pretty unlucky enough (thanks to the health issues lol) to be in the top 0.01% of something
Landithy 9 months ago
Mine's really boring but I have a condition called Klippel-Feil syndrome which affects about 1 in 40,000 people. There are a few other criteria for diagnosis, but basically, I was born with my top two vertebrae fused. It's pretty mild in my case and I only got diagnosed because it finally occurred to me that needing to crack my neck 1-3 times a day to avoid crippling headaches probably isn't normal.
CanadianDimes 9 months ago
Does it impact your ability to turn your head or to tilt it forward or backward? I used to teach human osteology and had never heard of this before and find it interesting from a functional anatomy perspective. I’m glad it doesn’t affect you more than needing to crack your neck and hope I’m reading right that you typically don’t get crippling headaches!
Load More Replies... Nadine Debard 9 months ago
My parents have #1 blue eyes and #2 brown eyes and I have green eyes (<0,15%). I also have a different rhesus type from my mother's (yes I'm their natural child). My baby also has an odd phenotype (blonde and blue eyed). Amazing genetics.
Pandroid Rebellion 9 months ago
2x as a teenager I was inappropriately oogled by men who later murdered or attempted to murder another woman who looked eerily like me. The first worked at a car wash and we just stopped going there but he is still in prison for murdering my dear friend. (Rest in Peace, JenJen.) The second was kicked out of school for the semester (it became a huge deal, the campus police had to do a sexual harassment seminar because of how they treated me and all acted like I was a vain drama queen) and when he came back he attempted to strangle a young woman on campus, in broad daylight, behind a building. People thought it was a feral cat fight and went to break it up. She was almost dead. All 3 of us had similar build, hair, complexion and eye color. I did not know these men in any tangible way so I must assume it is a coincidence and I, too, looked like their A REAL fetish girl. So yeah. Dodged a couple very creepy bullets.
CanadianDimes 9 months ago
I have a vertebral border shift so instead of having 12 thoracic vertebrae and 5 lumbar I have 11 and 6. Although it’s rare, it’s not shockingly rare and about 10 years ago, I excavated an archaeological skeleton with exactly the same condition. I’ve seen X-rays of my own spine but it was super cool to see a vertebral column that looked like mine!
SynthaCybe 9 months ago
not me but my Ex-wife, had a specific kind of neural tumor (Nerve Cancer) during her youth, it has a long complicated name, something like Trans-ulnar Hyperfocal carcinomic Neuropathy - at the time (late 1990s) she was one of 7 documented cases Globally so around 1 in a Billion (0.000000001%). She had it removed and had to have the nerves to her hand fully "rewired" and had nearly a decade of Physiotherapy to regain use of the hand to an acceptable level.
Zaphod 9 months ago
I am in the top 1% of trivia players in the world. I have qualified for Jeopardy! Sadly, they have never called. They put 1000 people into the contestant pool each year, but they only use 400/year. I've won well over $30,000 playing bar trivia over the last 26 years. (l won four tournaments at $4,400 each)
Kira Okah 9 months ago
What do people know of cross-dominance/mixed handedness? Basically, some tasks are done only right-handedly, some left-handedly, and some ambidexturally. It's apparently the rarest manifestation of hand dominance, less than 1%, and I have it. Confuses a lot of people when I use a pen in the left hand and a computer mouse in the right, or fork right handed but chopsticks left handed.
Tyranamar 9 months ago
I think a lot of left handed people do some things better with their right. True ambidextrous- you do everything with both hands equally well is super rare.
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Rachele McKelly 9 months ago
I had lemierre's syndrome AND toxic shock syndrome at the same time.
Brittany Copeland 9 months ago
When I was in school, I was in the top 0.1% of readers across the board on a national level. I think I was officially ranked in the top 200 students in the US in terms of reading comprehension and vocabulary starting when I was 11. My senior year of high school I broke top 30. I actually had to get a government "pardon" for my tests because improving this score was the only way to pass onto the next grade with full marks. Hard to do when your reading skills rival a dude with a doctorate in literary arts.
HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 9 months ago
I can't think of anything at the moment I'm in the top 0.01% for, but in middle school I was in the top 1% for an international writing exam, so I might have been in the top 0.01% for my country maybe?
Maartje 9 months ago
I daresay that this is an uncommon event : I had my pet crow remove a contact lens from my eye ( "that does not belong there, let me help you out with this") and he did this without causing any damage to my eye or the lens, they are THAT precise with their beak. Of course I had a hell of a time getting the lens back from him ( crows like to play "keepaway")
Stormblessed 9 months ago (edited)
I was fluently talking in 4 different languages by the time I was five, but then I forgot French. I'm re-learning it now in school tho. And also this isn't rare but I have freakishly long fingers and toes (My middle finger is about an inch longer than my palm)
Tyranamar 9 months ago
Everyone in Switzerland does minimum 3. I think 4 is not that rare in many parts of Europe.
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Brainless Blobfish 9 months ago
I'm in the top 0.05% of most listened to for my favorite band.
Petra Schaap 9 months ago
im most definitely the fan (together with my BF) that saw the most John Fogerty shows :-D Yes, its a small scene, and yeah, we know. The only person who saw him more is his wife who is alway sidestage. And, as he once said "only I have seen myself more than you did" LOL !!
Rick Seiden 9 months ago
I have red hair (or I used to before I got old and it went mostly gray!), simian crease in both hands, and the last lumbar in my spine is fused to my pelvic bone (spina bifida occulta, I think). Quite a rare combo.
Steve 9 months ago
Petting and having full conversations with other peoples’ dogs without ever acknowledging the owner
OpheliaPoe 9 months ago
I tend to talk to myself but now I work at a cat rescue so I just talk to the cats all day instead 😆🥰
Load More Replies... TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago
IQ percentile. Has never been apparent to me though...never knew it until I was tested for entry to the military.
Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago
I can write Senryu on-demand about any subject damn near instantly. So rapidly, that my friends accuse me of having some weird, secret, on-line Haiku generator.
Kristal 9 months ago
I mean, did you graduate high school and get the diploma instead of a GED? Or no graduation from high school and got a PhD? I'd love to hear the story if its the second one cause one doesn't get an undergrad degree without the completion of high school (diploma) or GED.
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Auntriarch 9 months ago
Gosh, I'm the only person in the world who has never shaved their face, we must be twins!
Load More Replies... Maartje 9 months ago
If this shows twice, I apologize. I dare say I am the only person who this happened to : my pet crow removed a contact lens from my eye. ( his thinking: "that does not belong there, let me help you"). He did this without causing any damage to lens or eye. Getting the lens back from him was hell, crows like to play "keepaway".
Stardust she/her 9 months ago
One of my relatives is the second person on earth who made a company fully sustainable
Michael Largey 9 months ago
In what area am I in the top 0.1%? Well, there's wasted potential, obviously.
Justin Tyme 9 months ago
I have experienced two rattlesnake bites - one on the left hand and one on the left leg. I had a very minimal reaction both times and did not seek medical treatment. I am also immune to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.
PeepPeep the duck 9 months ago
I have nothing except maybe, I’m one of very few people outside of research and science to have helped a dying fly give birth. That was interesting
Kristal 9 months ago
I am an expert on 2 research studies as I'm the only one that is studying (or have studied) them in the world. I don't expect it to stay this way though, researchers gotta research.
TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago
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Load More Replies... E W 9 months ago
This is very morbid but, I believe I might be one of a handful of people who have seen both Space Shuttle disasters, (Challenger and Columbia), in person. I was in elementary school in Brevard County, FL when Challenger happened, and I was living in North Central, Texas when Columbia happened.
EmBree 9 months ago
After years of illness my husband finally met a foreign Dr that managed to diagnose him. It's a rare genetic illness and my husband is the only one in our country that has it. Talking to the Dr I half joked and asked if he could diagnose me too. He asked for my symptoms and I was diagnosed with a rare genetic illness, and I'm the only one in the country that has it. The risk of us passing it on to our children was 50/50 meaning they risked having both genetic conditions. None of them have either of it. Still, our kids have decided to not have kids of their own. I fully understand why.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 9 months ago
I'm the only person to have fully admitted to my crime, and to the fact I deserved to be in prison. Even the other people who admitted to being guilty would blame their lawyer, the person who turned them in, or anyone else. Nope. I did it. I deserved what I got.
pasej41913@bustayes.com 9 months ago
Oh you were in prison? I don't think you've ever mentioned it.
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 9 months ago
As someone with: Autism, Schizophrenia, DID, Green eyes, Red hair, Fibromyalgia, Porphyria, speaking more than 2 languages... I think I'm pretty unlucky enough (thanks to the health issues lol) to be in the top 0.01% of something
Landithy 9 months ago
Mine's really boring but I have a condition called Klippel-Feil syndrome which affects about 1 in 40,000 people. There are a few other criteria for diagnosis, but basically, I was born with my top two vertebrae fused. It's pretty mild in my case and I only got diagnosed because it finally occurred to me that needing to crack my neck 1-3 times a day to avoid crippling headaches probably isn't normal.
CanadianDimes 9 months ago
Does it impact your ability to turn your head or to tilt it forward or backward? I used to teach human osteology and had never heard of this before and find it interesting from a functional anatomy perspective. I’m glad it doesn’t affect you more than needing to crack your neck and hope I’m reading right that you typically don’t get crippling headaches!
Load More Replies... Nadine Debard 9 months ago
My parents have #1 blue eyes and #2 brown eyes and I have green eyes (<0,15%). I also have a different rhesus type from my mother's (yes I'm their natural child). My baby also has an odd phenotype (blonde and blue eyed). Amazing genetics.
Pandroid Rebellion 9 months ago
2x as a teenager I was inappropriately oogled by men who later murdered or attempted to murder another woman who looked eerily like me. The first worked at a car wash and we just stopped going there but he is still in prison for murdering my dear friend. (Rest in Peace, JenJen.) The second was kicked out of school for the semester (it became a huge deal, the campus police had to do a sexual harassment seminar because of how they treated me and all acted like I was a vain drama queen) and when he came back he attempted to strangle a young woman on campus, in broad daylight, behind a building. People thought it was a feral cat fight and went to break it up. She was almost dead. All 3 of us had similar build, hair, complexion and eye color. I did not know these men in any tangible way so I must assume it is a coincidence and I, too, looked like their A REAL fetish girl. So yeah. Dodged a couple very creepy bullets.
CanadianDimes 9 months ago
I have a vertebral border shift so instead of having 12 thoracic vertebrae and 5 lumbar I have 11 and 6. Although it’s rare, it’s not shockingly rare and about 10 years ago, I excavated an archaeological skeleton with exactly the same condition. I’ve seen X-rays of my own spine but it was super cool to see a vertebral column that looked like mine!
SynthaCybe 9 months ago
not me but my Ex-wife, had a specific kind of neural tumor (Nerve Cancer) during her youth, it has a long complicated name, something like Trans-ulnar Hyperfocal carcinomic Neuropathy - at the time (late 1990s) she was one of 7 documented cases Globally so around 1 in a Billion (0.000000001%). She had it removed and had to have the nerves to her hand fully "rewired" and had nearly a decade of Physiotherapy to regain use of the hand to an acceptable level.
Zaphod 9 months ago
I am in the top 1% of trivia players in the world. I have qualified for Jeopardy! Sadly, they have never called. They put 1000 people into the contestant pool each year, but they only use 400/year. I've won well over $30,000 playing bar trivia over the last 26 years. (l won four tournaments at $4,400 each)
Kira Okah 9 months ago
What do people know of cross-dominance/mixed handedness? Basically, some tasks are done only right-handedly, some left-handedly, and some ambidexturally. It's apparently the rarest manifestation of hand dominance, less than 1%, and I have it. Confuses a lot of people when I use a pen in the left hand and a computer mouse in the right, or fork right handed but chopsticks left handed.
Tyranamar 9 months ago
I think a lot of left handed people do some things better with their right. True ambidextrous- you do everything with both hands equally well is super rare.
Load More Replies... Rachele McKelly 9 months ago
I had lemierre's syndrome AND toxic shock syndrome at the same time.
Brittany Copeland 9 months ago
When I was in school, I was in the top 0.1% of readers across the board on a national level. I think I was officially ranked in the top 200 students in the US in terms of reading comprehension and vocabulary starting when I was 11. My senior year of high school I broke top 30. I actually had to get a government "pardon" for my tests because improving this score was the only way to pass onto the next grade with full marks. Hard to do when your reading skills rival a dude with a doctorate in literary arts.
HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 9 months ago
I can't think of anything at the moment I'm in the top 0.01% for, but in middle school I was in the top 1% for an international writing exam, so I might have been in the top 0.01% for my country maybe?
Maartje 9 months ago
I daresay that this is an uncommon event : I had my pet crow remove a contact lens from my eye ( "that does not belong there, let me help you out with this") and he did this without causing any damage to my eye or the lens, they are THAT precise with their beak. Of course I had a hell of a time getting the lens back from him ( crows like to play "keepaway")
Stormblessed 9 months ago (edited)
I was fluently talking in 4 different languages by the time I was five, but then I forgot French. I'm re-learning it now in school tho. And also this isn't rare but I have freakishly long fingers and toes (My middle finger is about an inch longer than my palm)
Tyranamar 9 months ago
Everyone in Switzerland does minimum 3. I think 4 is not that rare in many parts of Europe.
Load More Replies... Brainless Blobfish 9 months ago
I'm in the top 0.05% of most listened to for my favorite band.
Petra Schaap 9 months ago
im most definitely the fan (together with my BF) that saw the most John Fogerty shows :-D Yes, its a small scene, and yeah, we know. The only person who saw him more is his wife who is alway sidestage. And, as he once said "only I have seen myself more than you did" LOL !!
Rick Seiden 9 months ago
I have red hair (or I used to before I got old and it went mostly gray!), simian crease in both hands, and the last lumbar in my spine is fused to my pelvic bone (spina bifida occulta, I think). Quite a rare combo.
Steve 9 months ago
Petting and having full conversations with other peoples’ dogs without ever acknowledging the owner
OpheliaPoe 9 months ago
I tend to talk to myself but now I work at a cat rescue so I just talk to the cats all day instead 😆🥰
Load More Replies... TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago
IQ percentile. Has never been apparent to me though...never knew it until I was tested for entry to the military.
Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago
I can write Senryu on-demand about any subject damn near instantly. So rapidly, that my friends accuse me of having some weird, secret, on-line Haiku generator.
Kristal 9 months ago
I mean, did you graduate high school and get the diploma instead of a GED? Or no graduation from high school and got a PhD? I'd love to hear the story if its the second one cause one doesn't get an undergrad degree without the completion of high school (diploma) or GED.
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