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We all have our little quirks... some are more astounding than others. While most humans tend to have commonly shared features like 12 pairs of ribs, or eyes that are typically brown, green, or blue, sometimes features diverge a bit more uniquely. Much like all species on this planet, it is not impossible to encounter variations that simply blow our minds. 

In a recent Reddit post that discussed weird body features, Redditors shared some of their most striking peculiarities. As each commenter shared their individual—oftentimes confounding—anomalies, a shared community began to build and others helped to offer a bit of insight on the possible 'why' and 'how' their quirks may exist. Some (possible) explanations were given, while some still remained a mystery.

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#1

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies Insane hearing. I can tell when a car starts a block down the road. When the army base is doing artillary drills 30 miles away. When there's a mouse running through the kitchen. When a squirrel is running through the driveway and crunching leaves.

It makes sleeping a bit difficult. But going to a casino is like a freaking acid trip.

Dangercakes13 , c0ldgirl Report

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#2

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies Because of a blood disorder I have extremely acidic tears.
My face swells, burns, and I get hives or an allergic reaction.

A couple tears is annoying. Serious crying will eat away at my contacts, I’ll have to use cold compresses, and take antihistamines

bitchybarbie82 , Karolina Grabowska Report

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#3

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have two different ears. One is wide enough for ear buds, the other isn't. My twin brother has the mismatch on the opposite side.

jrbr549 , Lena Report

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies Ever since my brain surgery to remove a tumor I can't feel any temperature

thefriendlychef1991 , Dave Matos Report

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

Oh wow. That can be dangerous. What about surface temperatures? Like a hot pan; can you feel that?

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have a body mole in my eye, like inside of it and near the pupil

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#6

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have Aquagenic urticaria (water allergy)

Nicky_tro , peapod labs Report

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#7

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have alopecia but it doesn’t affect my head at all, have a full head of hair at almost 50…but my legs are bald as a baby’s a*s and I’m a dude.

Sukkit74 , Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious Report

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#8

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have Arnold's cough reflex. Anytime I stick a q tip in my left ear it triggers my gag reflex. Supposedly it only affects 2% of people

Edit: maybe I shouldn't have used the term gag reflex as I've never thrown up from it. Rather a very aggressive cough like I'm trying to hack something up uncontrollably. Sorry for any confusion. My fiance always thinks it sounds like I'm throwing up that's why I went straight to gag reflex.

hearts_unknown_ , Katy Warner Report

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#9

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies My eyes are symmetrical to the thousandth of an inch. My optometrist said it was rare. Everyone varies a little bit.

While it’s tough to get perfect head rotation towards the camera, I hope being off a pixel or two is good enough.

psgrue , psgrue (the actual photo) Report

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#10

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have visual snow, it sucks. Basically I see a bunch of dots all time.

arcashark38 , Paul Kehrer Report

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#11

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have a bifurcated uvula. That teardrop thing in the back of your throat? Mine is shaped like a butt.

cookiesndwichmonster , MasterHE Report

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#12

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies My sternum is concaved, so there's essentially a divet right between my breasts (I'm a guy)

EDIT: sure have learned quite a bit from this thread. I get asked my name a lot, it is Ian from Nebraska.

Apparently it's has an actual medical term (Pectus Excavatum) which is most definitely not a spell out of Harry Potter and way more common than I realized. It even has it's own subreddit (r/pectusexcavatum)
There's an opposite condition where the chest convexes outwards (Pectus Carinatum). If the 2 hug, they fuse into one superbeing.
There are surgeries to repair them but hurt like hell and have a long recovery time. Only recommended if it is a problem in your daily life.

Common uses include cereal bowl (not that I have done it), cell phone holder, candy dish, cuddle spot.

Wuropp , Owens Valley Desert Rat Report

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#13

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I can move my eyelashes left to right!

DedicatedSkeleton , DedicatedSkeleton (screenshot from original video) Report

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#14

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies Two uteruses and two cervixes (AKA: Uterus Didelphys)

BaronessVonNap , Hey Paul Studios Report

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

Oh my gosh, that sounds like a nightmare. I can barely handle one 😥

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies At some point I gotta sneeze when I‘m very hungry….

PaceWinter4101 , John Seb Barber Report

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

OMG ne too.. and it was really awkward for the past 2.5years when I'm hungry out in public lol

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies My knees makes a lot of noises when I'm crouching down.

My doctor tells me it's normal, but my girlfriend thinks I'm breaking a bone everytime.

ackelolzor , Fernando de Sousa Report

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#17

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have to wear socks at all times, otherwise my feet start sweating, which makes my hands sweat for some reason. Having sweaty feet is annoying, but sweaty hands are the worst.

stupidsexymonkfish , star athena Report

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

I have a friend who has severely sweaty hands and has to take treatment for it

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#18

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have massive calf muscles. It looks like every day is leg day despite not doing weight lifting.

My dad had the same.

MaxximumB , Ruth Hartnup Report

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies One of my ribs is not connected to my spine

all80_000_000fingers , Rick Kimpel Report

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#20

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have no cartilage in my ears. Flaps like dumbo.

Seasandshores , cosmic_jet Report

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies My belly button is significantly off center.

oddidealstronghold , Giuliano Maiolini Report

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#22

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I can flex a muscle somewhere in my head and it will produce a buzzing/rumbling sound in my ears. I've told this to people in my social circle but no one can do it.

KiroSkr , osseous Report

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

Me too. I thought everyone could do it? It feels like a muscle right inside of my ear, but not part of the ear maybe? I can only hold it for like 3 or 4 seconds at a time and still hear the noise. For people this doesn't happen too, the noise is just like being on a plane that just landed and is slowing down, but a bit quieter.

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies My fingers can bend backwards & i have a weak muscle in my eye which is when I create suction in my mouth my eyelid goes up fsr

EDIT: Eye thing is called Marcus Gunn phenomenon :)

DOUBLE EDIT: I don't have hyper mobility or anything like that, I'm just built different so my fingees go backwards in a u shape

TRIPLE EDIT: ok i do not have EDS or whatever i just have bendy fingers damn

KTtheBread , Joe Loong Report

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#24

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have 4 nipples

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies Really, really high bone density. X-ray images look like cartoon skeletons. No one can tell me exact what’s going on.

I have grey eyes. No color. Like a black and white eye.

I also have, if I understood the cardiologist correctly, 20 pacemaker nodes? Which … could be good? Or bad? The doctor didn’t offer an opinion one way or the other.

Edit: this is popular. To FAQ here:

Eye color from a little while ago: https://imgur.com/a/T1XvSM0

Grey to Grey-green to blue. To me, in the mirror in my bathroom, they just look grey. But that could be just the way I see them. AFAIK I’m not colorblind. (I pass the tests).

Swimming: I can swim. I cannot float - not even when I hold my breath.

I don’t have any x-ray pics - and hopefully I won’t have the occasion to get any anytime soon. But in the off chance that I do, I’ll post it.

The Game is going to flag me for talking about my bones - and I’m going to break everything, all at once.

Update 2: a few of y’all have mentioned Wolff-Parkinson-White and after reading up on it a little, given that I had some premature ventricular contractions in my late teens, (much older now) and my heart rate has always been a little higher than average, regardless of how fit I was - it never seemed to go up or down much - I’m going to go get checked out. Better safe than sorry.

kickasstimus , Safety Cap Report

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

Wow! The no floating part must be really hard! But since you have high bone density does that mean they don’t break as easily?

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I developed arthritis at 16 years old, also I have a massive a*s for a dude. Double cheeked up.

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

So we’re you the guy in the funny viral video on the stretcher?

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies My ears are asymmetrical, and I didn’t realize it until my late teens, after which it caused me great angst.

CountVonSchilke , Erauj Batista Report

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

My husband has a similar thing. One ear has extra cartilage and sticks out and the other is smaller and flatter. I like to push on the one with extra cartilage to make it go "pop pop" lol

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have ultra low heart rate. It was in the 50s anyway, but with some endurance training its in the 30s now.

Ive been multiple tested by cardios, 24h holter, all good no pauses or irregularities im good to go. When im in good shape im at 35-36bpm while awake, and down to 30 during sleep.

Maybe if i get in a good shape again, i ll ask for a new holter to see if i break 30bpm during sleep and touch 29 or so.

Some More info:
I don't take any meds that affect my HR. I have a very mild Hypertension that is controlled with (ARBs). Not beta blockers. This is the only med i'm taking. This hasn't affected my HR in any way. My HR was already ultra low before starting the meds.
In fact now in the summer, I'm completely stopped the meds because BP drops naturally.


I don't have any other health condition (appart from orthopedic injuries). I'm 41m and as far as i can remember my HR is as described.

I am mainly a runner but i also swim as secondary or recovery. I do some strength training now and then. I'm not super good runner, just a 40:00 at 10k, but with very little training and i'm always battling with orthopedic injuries.

My max HR is around 175, i always use a HR strap when running (it measures electric signals), i dont trust the wrist optical HR monitors, they are not very accurate.

Needless to say i have never ever taken any other substance-drugs-steroids-hormones etc.

BruceDeorum , osseous Report

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I’m 6’6”, but I have a 7-foot arm span.

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have grey eyes and a fused tooth

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All my hair on my body is brown except in my armpits, it's blonde.

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

My father had dark blonde hair but when he grew a beard it came in red. My aunt said we have some redheaded ancestors.

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I've got ten toes but 12 toenails.

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I’m basically allergic to heat (urticaria)

I can kind of „dislocate“ my thumbs without touching them.
Idk how to explain it any better

Edit: It’s crazy how many of you can relate to the urticaria, I’ve never met someone who has it as well. If you asked me a question and I didn’t reply feel free to shoot me a dm, especially if you asked about medication or think you might have it too

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have pretty small hands compared to my body

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

A friend of mine too. It looks like a child’s hand. First time I noticed was when she put one of her hands close to her face. It seemed someone else’s. It was a bit creepy.

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have an asymmetrical ribcage

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

Mentioned in earlier post but my rib cage is uneven. Left side grew normal but right side did not. It's so hard to explain. Hate it

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#36

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I can dislocate my thumb for ez and when I open my mouth my left eye lid goes up, because the nerve of the lid is connected to the nerve to my chin.
That´s why I wouldnt go for a dinner on the first date xD

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#37

Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies I have a rare heart disease, it's called Wolff Parkinson white, and so when i am attached to a heart monitor my heart rate is different then everyone else - it beats weird

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Only People With Rare Body Features Joined This Thread And Shared 35 Of Their Body Anomalies my kneecap is in 2 parts.

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#39

I have naturally huge trap and calf muscles. I didnt think much of them until college and then dudes started asking me for tips. Specifically my calves because well you can see them when I wear shorts. I just had to say genetics when asked.

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