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30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population
Mothers around the world definitely mean it when it comes to letting their kids know that they are special. But it seems that some people are special to the point that they make it to 1% of all the human population. Some people are in 1% of the world’s humans for having an extremely rare blood type, sporting a third nipple or being allergic to sudden temperature change. And there are people who are in the more obscure and tongue-in-cheek part of the extremely little part of the world, such as the fastest typers with 100wpm or, well, top 1% of Pink Floyd listeners on Spotify.
The online group /AskReddit made sure to gather all of the weirdest, quirkiest and funniest 1% of the world and below is a list of the best ones.
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#1
I was addicted to heroin for a decade. I got clean and stayed clean, 5 years later. I've never relapsed and never see it happening.
They say 10% of addicts get clean and stay clean. That number has proved to be high, from my personal experience.
I've been to 38 funerals in 4 years. None were anything but overdoses.
I'm still here. I'm one of the ones who made it out.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
Sometimes, whenever you are done then you really are done. I am one and a half years clean off morphine (20 year old habit) and like you, i haven't relapsed. And I don't see it happening either. Congratulations, you deserve it.
Nannerdog 4 years ago
Yay Amy Jo!!!! 🥳 Big grin on my face for you right now!!
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Stacy Moseley Adams 4 years ago
Its a way bigger accomplishment than most people can grasp, good for you!
Carrie Sutton 4 years ago
Congratulations!! I'm 6 months clean from heroin! I haven't had a relapse either! So proud of all the recovering addicts!! We do recover!!
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#2
I figured I have to be in the top 1% of deaf guitar players worldwide. I heard completely fine for like 25 years and spent 19 years of that to practise guitar playing. Been legally deaf for 3 years now and still can play well (muscle memory). I kinda want to start a band called Deaf Metal or something.
A B C 4 years ago
You DO realise these are quoted from Reddit (mostly, some content comes from twitter, instagram etc) and those who posted them originally can't see you're replying to "their" post, right?
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HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
If I saw a band called Deaf Metal I would listen, thats an epic name
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Find yourself a blind person, and someone who doesn't talk to form the Nu metal trio, "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil"
hiphillbert 4 years ago
That's not how you sign I love you... Come on BP, it's literally a post about a deaf person and you couldn't find the correct image.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Cue the "Sound of Metal" movie (about a drummer losing hearing), which is excellent.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
You know, the last letter is being signed as "u" not you, in I love you? Just wondered if you noticed that. And instead of Deaf Metal how about Def Metal ? Lol
#3
I drive a BMW and always use my turn signal, even pulling out of my driveway.
Pernille Dyre 4 years ago
😂😂😂 glad I’m in Denmark cause i do the same and here the healthcare is free…..
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
First I don't believe this since I am certain BMW don't come with working turn signals. And for some freak instance you do use turn signals while driving BMW, how much extra you have to pay to get turn signals in that car?
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I do the same. In parking lots too. No one can read your mind, so signal your intentions.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
What's next? An Audi driver actually staying the proper distance away from the next car?
#4
Not me but my husband. He has a brain tumor on the pituitary gland. Before treatment his body pumped out pregnancy hormones, so he was hormonal and moody AF for ages.
Just before it got really bad we managed to get pregnant. When our baby was born his chest had that let-down sensation new moms feel (a heavy weighted feeling in your boobs).
When our baby cried, HIS boobs started leaking breast milk same time MINE did. He actually had to pump milk out to ease the pain in his chest.
...He got the treatment he needed and he no longer can squirt breastmilk at me if I piss him off.
Edit: **thank you so much for the rewards! Absolutely touched!! ** ❤❤❤
It was officially diagnosed as Prolactinoma. I know it's not exactly 1% but still pretty rare.
On addition to medication to shrink the tumor I also had to give him hormone injections deeming him infertile for a few years. Male birth control. It broke his heart.
Light at the end of the tunnel we were able to get him off the injections and we're trying for baby #2 after 7 years. We were successful, briefly, but it didn't last. Crossing fingers for next time.
Markus Holstein 4 years ago
"and he no longer can squirt breastmilk at me if I piss him off" - wait, what?!?
Panda Kicki 4 years ago
I can confirm that doing so is very fun 😄 pewpew!
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New Prometheus 4 years ago
It is possible for men to breastfeed, in theory. They have the equipment. Some tribes practice this.
#5
Not sure if it's the 1% or not but know its very rare. Womb twisted itself back to front when I was pregnant, fetus should really not have been viable but she's now a very energetic and beautiful 20 month old. They were going to induce me early because the twist (that we didn't know about at this point) was causing me so much pain. Thankfully a nurse felt something was strange with my cervix cervix ordered another scan. Cut to emergency c section. Surgeon had no idea what he was looking at when he opened me up, consultant called in. Noone in the hospital had ever seen anything like it, they took photos, every nurse said they wanted to see them. We were lucky, the consultant said that afterwards she had done some research and only found a handful of records and the outcome of the surgery was not good. At least one of us shouldn't be here. If I had been induced I would have died in incredible pain, unable to deliver and baby would have probably died from stress. We are now a case study and have changed the way that hospital responds to pain in pregnancy.
Klas Klättermus 4 years ago (edited)
Made me think of when my brother had gallstone and an infected gall bladder. It could burst any time and then he would die so of course he had to have emergency surgery. Although living in Sweden he had to wait for two weeks possibly dying at any time. But when the surgeon talked to my brother after the surgery she said she had never seen anything like it. His body had started encapsulating it and tried to push it out of his body. Also some interesting photos for sciense I suppose
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
More proof that there are still things we don't know and that the medical profession need to be honest and tell us that sometimes and do more tests instead of making assumptions that are sometimes very wrong
Pernille Dyre 4 years ago
I've seen one half twist.... i'm a midwife.... it's really rare... Thank god someone had good hands ...
#6
I was born with a cardic rhythm disorder. Normal heartrate for a newborn is like 130 per minute, mine was like 30. I heard from my mother my case was so rare that several cardiologists from all over the country ditched their conferences to fly to the hospital I was in and to see how to fit a pacemaker into a newborn.
glowworm2 4 years ago
Aw! I love how there were so many interested and concerned cardiologists.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Think of them as "heart engineers" and it makes sense. Engineers rarely pass up an opportunity to tackle a rare problem in their particular field.
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Aay (they/them) 4 years ago
That is so sweet and cool. Those cardiologists are so nice and want to learn how to do there job better.
#7
I am in the 1% of musicians who actually made a living playing music.
Notice I did not say “a good living”.
Also didn’t say “good music”.
#8
I had a life threatening reaction to a common prescription drug. It literally caused huge patches of my skin to fall off and my internal organs to begin liquefying. This reaction is so rare that they don’t even have to list it as a potential side effect (six cases have occurred with over ten million people taking this drug). I don’t like to name the drug because the problem was with my body, not the medicine itself. I don’t want to scare people away from a lifesaving drug that isn’t to blame for what happened. I’m fully recovered now, by the way.
cookie panda 4 years ago
"and my internal organs to liquify" jesus f***ing crist
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Cynthia Bonville 4 years ago
Stevens-Johnson syndrome, other drugs can cause this reaction (like almost all drugs can cause this for certain people), viruses can also do this as can bacterial infections. It is essentially an all over body burn and often deadly if not stopped.
HypnoFrog 4 years ago
I cannot be exposed to a certain class of drugs because I could stop breathing and/or develop Stevens-Johnson syndrome. It's a safe drug for other people though.
Load More Replies... Markus Holstein 4 years ago
Toxic epidermal necrolysis or Lyell syndrome, I assume? Essentially an inflammation and necrosis of the cells attaching your skin to the rest of your body, causing your skin to blister and peel
Big Chungus 4 years ago
This reaction can also happen if you take antibiotics, it is very rare, but also can be random
HypnoFrog 4 years ago
It can be genetic too. Me, my Mom, and two siblings are all allergic to the same antibiotic. Know your family history if you have the opportunity!
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I had Stevens Johnson Syndrome from very common NSAID medication that starts with Ad. Never had that problem for my first 30 years. I looked like picture on Wikipedia page for SJS but worse.
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
SHITT-I just googled that. Sorry for you, too!
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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
I saw something like this on Mystery Diagnosis. So glad you survived.
Claudia Saladino 4 years ago
Was it penicillin or sulfa? I was on one right after the other and got Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. Hospitalized for 4 days. It sloughed off all my taste buds and all my mucous membranes. Also developed huge blisters all over the soles of my feet, and my palms and fingertips. Also caused me to develop allergies to ibuprofen and naproxen sodium.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I had allergies to Sulfa drugs since childhood, just mild itchy rashes nothing severe. I developed SJS after taking Advil, drug that I had used all my life for pain. Now I can not take any NSAID medications. I remember I developed huge blisters on my soles first and in about 2 hours I looked like a burn victim all over the body. Had to spent 33 days in hospital.
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#9
Got my wisdom teeth pulled. One side grew back over a year from a fragment left. Dentist published an article about it and was so happy. I was not with another oral surgery.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
What on earth is a "Dental Spa"? You get a massage, sauna, and root canal? Relaxing "rainforest" sounds while they pull teeth?
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Maybe the point of it is "sedation"... ? People wanting to know if "is this the real world?"
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The Deez 4 years ago
The husband of one of my best friends had his spleen removed because of an accident. Several years later, a doctor was looking his scans and said, "I thought you had your spleen removed?" His body had grown back THREE spleens!!! No joke!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Wow they could make researches on him... he would be very useful for transplants if he has something that makes him grow parts!!!
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Sofie 4 years ago
I have a question. What medication do Americans get so they become high after going to the dentist? Like you see on youtube. It seems really scary to me, that never happens in Sweden. The only time I've heard something similar here is when you have been put to sleep during a major surgery and say wierd things right after you wake up in a special wake up-room at the hospital, way before you get to leave. No one gets to leave the hospital in the state I've seen people in in videos.
Robert Thompson 4 years ago
Didn't need mine removed. By back teeth are doublewide with 6 peaks on each crown.
Red Ruffensor 4 years ago
It's weird, I have a wisdom tooth that's poking through the gum now. Why is it weird? I'm 63 years old!
Pantea 4 years ago
Regarding "happy doctor": Once I went to a new specialist and while answering questions about my medical history, I mentioned suffering (well one does not really "suffer" that much) from favism (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency). He got all excited and said he wrote an article about the condition when he was a studen, but had never seen a real patient before. It's very common in Middle East, where I come from, but rare in Europe.
Kat Kirkpatrick 4 years ago
My daughter had to have all four of her wisdom teeth out because her mouth is small (like mine) and they were crowding her other teeth and causing pain. They would have eventually pushed her other teeth out of alignment. She was scared of using anything but novocaine, so the dentist wanted to schedule four different appointments to take them all out, knowing how much pain it causes most people. After he got the first one out, she told him to "keep going, I feel fine..." and again twice more until he had taken all four out in one session. Novocaine wore off and she was feeling NO PAIN. She was eating solid food by the third day. My child is not human. She is my beautiful mutant alien baby, lol!
H Edwards 4 years ago
Or me. I had years of painful orthodontic treatment, including 4 extractions when I was 10, to straighten my very crooked teeth. So many people told me that they would get all messed up again when my wisdom teeth came in, but they never did and my teeth are exactly how they were when the treatment ended 27 years ago.
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Nicole Cabrera 4 years ago
I had the same thing! It ended up giving me sever TMJ from shifting my jaw. I am literally, swear on my pupper, heading to a new dentist is 2 hours! Wish me luck!
Lola 4 years ago
I need to have a scan done - I had my 3 wisdom teeth pulled out 5 years ago but I can feel on one side that the socket is fuller and bigger than the the others. And it was the side where the surgeon kinda screwed up - he had to check the scans multiple times while my gum was cut open.
#10
when Spotify released listening statistics at the end of 2020, I was on the top .1% of weird Al yankovic listeners
M O'Connell 4 years ago (edited)
I could listen to Alapalooza and Off the Deep End over and over again, those are great albums.
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ZombieGirl 4 years ago
Wait, how do you see who each artists top listeners are? I thought you just saw who the top artists you personally listened to are, not the other way around.
#11
I have small intestinal cancer. The type is the same as colon cancer. But where it's located is less than 1% of world wide diagnosis per year.But I've signed papers for 11 different oncologists to be able to access my records to see what works what doesn't etc. because they just don't get enough examples of it. Kind of hit or miss on procedures to work with, which treatments first, which type of chemo, etc. Ive also said that if it ever reaches a point where I'm terminal and common treatments just won't/don't work anymore, I'm willing to go all guinea pig.
Depending on exactly where it is, because of the veins coming off of your mesentaric artery to feed the small intestine, it usually isn't operable. So you are strictly on chemo and radiation. If the heavy levels don't do it, then you get to go on low dose chemo daily for however long it works. Then it eventually doesn't.Currently according to my last PET scan, the tumors have disappeared. They won't say remission, just that it seems to be "dormant" right now. I'll take it.
Greg Clifford 4 years ago (edited)
How do I reach out to the OP here? I am going through something very similar and have a possible solution, but I want to talk to this person first before going public.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
You need to find the person on reddit but i think these posts are usually quite old
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Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
Its a reddit post. if you want to comment to the person, do it on reddit, not on here. bored panda just reposts from other sources unconnected to those sources.
#12
I have AB- blood, which is found in less than 1% of the population.
Jovita A 4 years ago
I have the second rarest blood type (B-), was a donor for 10 years before coming to the states... Was heartbroken when they said I can't donate anymore due to the fact that I lived in the UK for a while... Still hoping they will change it one day.. Being a blood donor was so fulfilling..
Suzanne McHenry 4 years ago
I am A- and when I lived in the States I was told I could not donate blood either being I am from the UK. It has something to do with Mad Cow Disease that stops British people from donating blood in the USA according to the American Red Cross.
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Adibah Mohd Adnan 4 years ago
2 sons with O-ve, 1 with AB -ve, I'm A +ve, hubby B+ve-my dad is O-ve
Danish Dynomummy 4 years ago
My husband has ab-negative... every doctor wants to tap hos blood, but he is SO afraid of needles, lol. Also, I'm O-positive, so our kids could have any type
#13
I have aphantasia. I can't form images in my mind. If I read a book, for instance, I wouldn't be able to tell you what the characters look like. My brain just doesn't work like that.
I found out at 30 that other people actually visualize things in their head. I always thought it was kinda like a figure of speech or something...
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I can't imagine reading a book without visualizing. It's just so bleh...
julie son 4 years ago (edited)
Actually, it's not! I don't see images, either, but I respond with very strong feelings. I love books, and I appreciate good writing, and good descriptions. If, for example, the author describes a beautiful day at the beach I respond with the 'feel' of the beach: basking in the sun, the touch of a breeze caressing my skin, the way my feet feel so happy when I wiggle my toes in the water...And it's not separate, sequential feelings, it's an amazing amalgamations of all these sensations put together. It's the same way you 'see' the color of the light with your eyes closed in the sun: it's not a clear image, but it's golden, and warm, and you feel your soul breathing, and unfolding, and this slow spread of just... gentle happiness in every cell of your body! Not seeing images doesn't mean you are somehow deprived: we generally have a different way of processing information, that's all.
Load More Replies... Aurel Chatterjee 4 years ago
i have aphantasia too! I'm not sure how its like for you, but for me, i have to think of the words to describe it and then like write them down or something to "see it." Its weird, I was the same, I thought it was a figure of speech too heh.
Solidhog 4 years ago
I only found out about this a few weeks ago. Totally mind blowing! For those who don't understand I will try to explain better. If I asked you to imagine your mum standing there holding a cake you construct an image in your head. You make up the colour of the dress, the size and type of cake and can see your mums face. People with aphantasia just can't construct that image inside their head or see it. There is actually an artist who works for disney and has to use a mirror when drawing expressions because he can't see it in his head.
Lindsey Turner 4 years ago
So I think I kind of have this. I've literally spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure it out. I always have had a vivid imagination but I think these things. I've just realised I don't see them. I've been trying to visualise a Ruby red apple and I can't see it
AnnaB 4 years ago
I'm 68 and just discovered that I have it too. I never knew that when people close their eyes and imagine an 'apple', that they can actually visualize an apple. I thought it was a figure of speech. All I see is black and have to use my brain to remember what an apple looks like from actually seeing one. I feel like I've missed out on a big part of life!
Xottel 4 years ago
Are there degrees to it? Because I definitely have a problem with picturing things in my head but I wouldn't deem it impossible.
Jode Mode 4 years ago
I... I'm so shocked and baffled by this... I can't imagine being, like, cranial picture blind. Do you folks enjoys reading books? Because for me - and I'm guessing so many - the beauty of reading is the visuals your brain creates via the words. (AND it suck that you found this out so late in life. Guess it's not something kids are tested for...) I'm so intrigued .
Albino 4 years ago
Books are still fun. You must not forget, we never knew it could be different. I found out at 35/36 that this was not the way most people work.
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#14
I can spin on my ass really fast like probably around 20 full rotations in one go. I start standing up, then I put my left hand on the ground and I throw my right leg towards my left, finally I retract my legs and put my Hands on my knees and i go spinning like a motherf****** beyblade. I've been doing this since i was 3 or 4.
Miłka Chromińska 4 years ago
Dude, that's really cool :D You should go on America's Got Talent or something aha 😅
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
aw, Simon Cowell would not be able to make any money out of it so no chance of getting anywhere.
Load More Replies... Markus Holstein 4 years ago
At first I just read "I can spin my ass" and was like "how does that work?!?"
Kirsten Verbeek 4 years ago
Hahahaha that's what I read too, had a really hard but fun time imagining that
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Llama_flower93 4 years ago
You should make sure you can still do this when you're 80. That would be awesome too!
#15
I have an autoimmune disease that’s so rare nobody knows what it is. Genetic testing is currently underway to see if I have a recently discovered genetic defect that about ten people have been diagnosed with.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Good news! You get a disease named after you! Bad news, you get a disease named after you ...
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Princess Toadstool 4 years ago
I have a friend that has a super rare condition that he’s the only one with it in the world
#16
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games 2008 pole vault. When i was 8-11, i had the 2nd highest score in the world. That has most likely changed
Elizabeth Tunney 4 years ago
Holy moly macaroni!!! I’ve done something similar on a mobile game app. I was like top 5 in the world at 11. Nice job!
#17
I'm part of the 1 (to 2) percent with red hair.
(Except in my house where I'm part of the 80%. Me and my kids are redheads, my wife is a blonde.)
Allmeow-err 4 years ago
My son is in the red hair club too! freckles, blue eyes n all. Totally unexpected as I have brown eyes. But since my husband has the blue eyes...they passed right down to his sons. 123190238_...8b407f.jpg 
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
My mom has natural red hair. Not orange, not ginger, it's blood red. But all my sisters and brothers have really dark brown hair xD
Heather Greenwald 4 years ago
Me, my son, and my sister all have red hair too. YAY, now that I'm older. I hated it when I was a kid.
#18
I'm a test tube baby. That's like 0.001% of the population.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
I have a cousin who is a test tube baby too. It's just a weird name to in vitro fertilisation babies.
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
This was the original common name, but now IVF is more common and accurate (IVF was the original scientific name)
Load More Replies... Solidhog 4 years ago
That is actaully no longer true. Test tube babies and IVF are the same thing. In America 1% of babies born are IVF.
Spring Fisk 4 years ago
There is also something called Snowflake baby's. They are extra fetus' left over from In Vitro Fertilization. If a couple will allows it, you can apply to adopt these baby's and have them implanted in your womb.
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
Louise Brown was the first ever test tube baby, born in Oldham in the UK. She's now a mother herself.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
In vitro fertilization. It's a very successful method for treating infertility. An egg is removed from the ovary, and fertilized with sperm in a laboratory, then placed back in the uterus, or into someone else's uterus in the case of a surrogate mother.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 4 years ago
I knew twins that were some of the first 'test tube' babies in Australia
#19
Not that I've looked it up, but I've run over a fish in my car. Whenever I tell the story, no one has heard anything like it.
N G 4 years ago
I take it the fish was not in it's natural habitat and you weren't driving through flood water at the time?
Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
If he killed it it was probably a salmon or a trout crossing a flooded road or something
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 4 years ago (edited)
Bird picks up fish, fish struggles. Bird accidentally drops it as it's flying away to eat it.
Sam Yobado 4 years ago
I almost hit a seal on the highway, that's gotta be pretty rare too, I imagine.
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
This happens frequently when driving through water that is usually at a lower level. The fish cross the road, but their road sense is zero.
Mazer 4 years ago
Let me guess, you live near the Pacific Northwest. Ospreys who feed exclusively on fish, They have a tendency to turn the fish headfirst as they are carrying it back to their nest to feed on it, if they drop it they will not go down to get it, they will go fish for another one. I know a guy who was driving in the Pacific Northwest who saw a fish every mile and a half to 3 miles on the road and they finally figured out it was the Ospreys dropping the fish.
#20
I am allergic to temperature extremes. Taking a hot shower or touching an ice cube will give me hives
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I also have very low tolerance to ice! Don't know if it's really allergy but for example i cannot put ice on any inflammation! I feel terrible pain in a few seconds and my skin becomes really red! It's quite difficult when i have injuries that require ice!
Load More Replies... chrissy goodman 4 years ago
hey nothing wrong with odd rare allergies i mean im allergic to the smell of fish i cant enjoy alot of things bc of it. i can eat fish no problem however i need to keep my nose plugged the whole time or else ill collapse pass out and break out in a bad full body rash
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
I've always found it interesting that (out of numerous allergies) I can eat rosemary fine but if I touch it I come out in a rash (discovered when I had some pinned to my lapel for a remembrance day service). I didn't know this sort of thing happened to other people.
Load More Replies... Yettichild 4 years ago
If my internal body temp rises much my lips turn blue and I pass out. Doctors have no idea what it is.
D-m Keilman 4 years ago
I get hives on my legs the size of salad plates if I do any activity in the cold. Even a walk around the block. And if my shower is too hot or I stay in it too long I get smaller versions on my back, chest, and shoulders. Only in the past year has it really been a problem. The hives never used to itch but omg lately they have been horrible.
Camren Mugabe 4 years ago
So i guess saunas and pools at fancy hotels are out the question right?
#21
Anyone's birthday must be under 1% of the world population. Congrats everyone!
DogPerson7 4 years ago
I am no expert, and of course it depends on when you were born, but some people share their birthdays with 20.4 million people according to what I found online. 1% is 7 million.
Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago
There are 7 billion people in the world, so 1% is 70 million, not 7 million.
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David Williams 4 years ago
Sadly not- eg February 29th being a prime example, and also over the year the distribution of births is not normal; way more people are both in September for example. Conception is not random.
Lightningstar 4 years ago
Hey David I know someone with the same full name
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The distribution of birthdays is not even, so some people share heir birthdays with more that 1%.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Especially my sister’s birthday. She was born in Christmas Eve, and I looked it up, it’s one of the rarest birthday ever.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
Does September 30th count? I suppose it's rare to be born on the 30 or 31st day!
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#22
2 eye colors (blue and brown) This is what my eye looks like, it's sectoral heterochromia.
cookie panda 4 years ago
blue and brown is the most commen of double colors i think. not to gatekeep or anything. ive seen it in a lot cats and stuff, but ive also seen a green and blue and a yellow and blue in cats.
Load More Replies... Binxecantsleep 4 years ago
I to have Heterochromia, My left eye is split in half (brown & blue) and my right eye is is solid green.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
I had a friend who had one blue eye and one brown eye. She was pretty cool :)
#23
Ive died and had 6 wisdom teeth, and ironically those 2 things are related
For context, my heart stopped during my wisdom teeth extraction surgery. I don’t remember for how long but the anesthesiologist said he had the needle of adrenaline in his hand when my heart started beating again. I remember them waking me up and just saying “you gave us a little scare there” before putting me back under and completing the surgery. After i came to and was sitting in the waiting room i had to text my dad (because I couldn’t talk) “I think i died”. In which my dad obviously freaked out because they never even told him.
Christie Schmitz 4 years ago
Hold on, hold on...they said you technically died from being put under and when you recovered they still put you back under? I would be like "Hell no! Get me out of here!"
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
That is so scary. Slightly OT: why do they use general anesthetics for wisdom tooth removal? I had mine done under local, even the one that was really tricky (as per the surgeon, he loved it BTW, nice challenge for him).
Shelby P 4 years ago
because if your wisdom teeth are impacted it's not just pulling teeth...
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Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
I only had 3 wisdom teeth, apparently even numbers of wisdom teeth are much more common than odd
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
You didn't die. Dying is the process of your life ending. Your life is still going, so you didn't die.
Lightningstar 4 years ago
Yeah downvote me but I don't care how how long you were "dead" if you're alive right now, you haven't died yet
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#24
I think it's like 0.1–0.5% of women or something but I have a double uterus. Medically called a didelphys uterus. A septum separates my uterus which kinda made them form into two separate ones and the septum continues down into the vagina so I also have a left and right side. NOT fun to deal with but I'm too scared to get the surgery for it.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I had a hysterectomy and it was the worst thing ever. We are not all the same, the doctors are not all the same.
Load More Replies... AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Wait so you could in effect have twins that aren't twins at all. that's amazing
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
Yes. I've read news stories about this. A woman in Bangladesh a few years back gave birth to two children a month apart because of this condition.
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Stephanie Johnson 4 years ago
Yep. It's terrible. No tampons either and they don't always come at the same time.
Load More Replies... Duchess Raven Waves 4 years ago
My sister in law has this and just had twins.she is also a red head. She is an alien.
Susan Elizabeth 4 years ago
My mom had the same thing. They split her 2 cargo as into 1 when my brother was born
Kai Scadden 4 years ago
That's sucks.you have 2 periods.when your pregenant in 1 still have a period
Bored Batgirl 4 years ago
My good friend's daughter has this, they've known since birth. She's 10 and just had surgery to correct it.
Eva Muller 4 years ago
Me too, girl! Me too! I found out when I was 17. I was so mad. I don't know if I would dare to have the surgury either.
Jill Pulcifer 4 years ago
I went to school with a girl that had this, yours is the second case I have heard of, ever.
#25
im part of the 1% of people being ambidextrous
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
Me too. I can also write backwards in cursive, if writing with both simultaneously.
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I can write with both hands and backwards as well... I can also read backwards and upside down. Using a computer, I always say I'm "ambi-mouse-trous!"
シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ 4 years ago
That’s a thing? For years I wrote backwards and I thought it was normal
#26
I was in the first 1% to watch "What Does the Fox Say?" on youtube.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago (edited)
You mean the less we can blame them and take it out on them personally? Sad.
Load More Replies... HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
I remember when I was little I used to sit on the table next to the computer and watch the What Does The Fox Say video over and over again all day. Good times.
Gustavo Vanni 4 years ago
And I'm in the 1% (probably much more) that has never listened to it :)
No. 4 years ago
im pretty sure im one of the few who watched crab rave before it became a meme. I was really into techno music because of this game called JSAB (really good game but story mode will only take you like a week to finish) and noisestorm happened to be one of the people who made music for that game so i watched some music by noisestorm. It eventually came across crab rave.
#27
Income.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/
To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000
Lance LaRocque 4 years ago
I wish they would say USD or US dollars. Over 20 currencies use the $ sign. Also this is 2012 it would be a little higher now.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
This bugs me in a couple Facebook groups I'm in. No one ever says which currency. I'm Canadian so I'm always wondering.
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Robert Thompson 4 years ago
I always told people I was living like a king. Apparently I was only $1,000 short of actual royalty.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I very much doubt this, $34,000 would be a low wage in Britain and I am sure in Europe as well
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
Considering how many billions of people live in India, China, Africa, and South America, where many people get by on less than $1000 a year, yeah it's possible. The population of Britain, Europe, the US, Canada, etc all can't compare.
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Type 1 diabetes.
It's a s*** club.
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I have hypoglycemia... whenever doctors etc. ask you questions about diseases or anomalies... they give Diabetes as a choice then Type 1 or 2 but never is Hypogly a choice.
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Hollie Marie 4 years ago
My mum has autoimmune diabetes. When she was 6 she picked up hepatitis which stays in your blood stream and affects you permanently. She eventually got diagnosed as type 2 diabetic however after a year every med they tried wasn't working she got ketosis of the water twice and had to be admitted to hospital twice in a month and half cuz of dehydration and urine infections but all they did was alter her meds give her fluids and send her home. The doctors got pissed off with the hospital in the end because they weren't treating her only doing patch jobs and she was losing significant weight. After finally arguing with the hospital staff that she needed insulin they gave it to her still not knowing the reason. I'm happy to report the insulin worked wonders and they discovered her pancreas was failing. It will produce the insulin however that insulin was being killed off by her body before it could take effect. Apparently because she had an autoimmune disease she contracted type 1 randomly
#29
Mauritians living in the uk. We often refer ourselves as Martians
Hollie Marie 4 years ago
I knew a Mauritian at my old job she could speak French fluently because apparently they used to be colonised by them. Mangos are my favourite fruit and I was jealous how easy it was to get them over there.
#30
At the end of Detroit: Become Human they tell you the percentage of people who got the same ending as you. Mine was 1%
huewrld 4 years ago
Detroit: Become Human is a videogame, and it has multiple endings (I'm assuming). I guess it's a choose your own adventure game, and once you finish, the game lets you know how many people got the same ending as you. The ending this person got was 1%.
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Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
"Detroit: Become Human" is a choose your own adventure video game.
Load More Replies... #31
Triple nipple over here. Half a percent I believe.
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
Like Francisco Scaramanga, the Bond villain in The Man with the Golden Gun:)
#32
Me and my 11 year old son tag teamed a hazard level 5 mission on Deep Rock Galactic which was meant for a 4 man crew. We beat it from beginning to end in one shot and got an award for it saying that only .65% of players have beaten hazard 5 from begining to end.
#33
I’m in the 1% for people with narcolepsy. I believe it’s .05% of America and .04% for the world.
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
I don't have narcolepsy, but I do suffer from extreme insomnia. I have fallen asleep standing in an empty office at my bosses desk looking for a file. I have fallen asleep in an elevator. I fell asleep sitting at my desk and banged my head on the keyboard. Missed my train stop many times. I haven't done any of these things in about 7 years. I still have insomnia though.
Lori Spins 4 years ago
Wait... you have insomnia and can fall asleep anywhere?
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Ahsoka Tano 4 years ago
It's an extremely rare condition when a person randomly falls asleep, often when they experience extreme emotions. ahh that sounds like it is straight out of a textbook sorry
Load More Replies... Jill Bussey 4 years ago
Sudden and unavoidable falling asleep. No driving licence. That's rough.
Samantha Mix 4 years ago
I've had it since 7th-8th grade. Dx not until 25 or so. So many strategies to cope and stay safe and healthy. Doesn't always work! But I actually enjoy falling asleep at night in less than a minute. I also legit dream in a REM state from time to time when I blink.
#34
I'm a red head with blue eyes, which is apparently much rarer than you think. Probably not 1% I guess.....lame.
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
Not lame at all. Almost my entire family is red hair and blue eyes. We have one with red hair and brown eyes. Me? My nom married a Puerto Rican and I'm brown hair and brown eyes. So boring. Celebrate your uniqueness!
sylvanticx 4 years ago
as a brown hair brown eyes i think that brown hair and eyes is not boring and is beautiful.
Load More Replies... sylvanticx 4 years ago
one of my best friends is red hair blue eyes. they're downright GORGEOUS. unfair.
Misha Writer 4 years ago
Red head with one blue and one green eye. My brother is also a red head, though he keeps a close shave and when he lets his hair grow a little, there's about an inch black all around his head. The middle is still red. It's very weird to see.
#36
Went to the optometrist recently and he said I have a uniquely shaped right cornea and said I was in the 1%. Did tests for a degenerative disease that I couldn't remember but I'm in the clear. Some latin sounding disease.. corneaus blah blah. The doctor said most people generally have half a portion of astigmatism in their eyes, my right eye has five portions.
#37
I guess I'm in the 1% of only having three lower front teeth
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
My aunt has only three upper teeth - one larger one in the middle, flanked by two slightly smaller ones, and then her canine teeth.
Kumar Shantanu Khare 4 years ago
Me too! I was born with all my teeth but had to get one lower front teeth along with two premolars extracted so that I could get braces
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
This looks like you found it on the beach. Also the false "three lower front teeth" from this denture have been removed.
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
the photo looks like someone has removed their dentures after eating a sh1t sandwich
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I knew someone like this. Her sister, for whatever reason, would call her "Lone Tooth" for that centered bottom tooth, even though it doesn't really make sense... "Lone Tooth" when all the other teeth are there...
#38
Spades. I am actually in the top .06% and used to be #1 out of 43,000 players. So I’m like one of the top billionaires in the world but in spades skills… so that earns me about uh… $0.00
#39
Typing speed Edit: To save everyone the google/finding the comments. Average is around 40-50wpm with ~100wpm being top 1%.
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
I. can. do. 60. wpm. including. correct. punctuation. and. grammar. LOL!
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
At one time, I was much faster, tested at 102 wpm. However, working as a type setter slowed me down.
RiaDeCaterpillar 4 years ago
My friend (speed typing on YT for proof) has a high of 241 in 15 sec and 200 in 30 sec
Jigsaw's Puzzle 4 years ago
My friend can do 200 wpm and click at 60cps. As a joke we call him the computer god and sacrifice keyboards in his name. Don't ask.
#40
Marathon runners, I guess it's a pretty low percentage of people who've ran 1 but I've ran over 40 and still going strong. Targeting being close to 50 by the end of the year.
Mushroomlover 4 years ago
My dad has run several of them, including the Boston Marathon, I’ll have to let him know he’s in the 1%!
#41
I scored a 99 on the ASVAB, which is graded using a percentile system.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I did too, then I could not get the recruiters to stop calling me. I finally lied and told them I was pregnant and didn't know who the father was and since I was going to have to raise my poor baby all alone, I didn't think a career in the military was for me... they never called again. LOL!
Lori Spins 4 years ago
test for the military to see what you qualify to do.
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Amy Watson 4 years ago
I did too....and spent the last 2 years of high school with Army and Navy recruiters trying to recruit me every time I was working my shift at McDonalds!
#42
I actually have an RTX 3080
What do you think ?
𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
I saw one of these posts the other day on BP and realised I fitted one of them. Have two rows of eyelashes! Didn’t know it was uncommon before
Zaza 4 years ago
I would have been a little jealous of you, but then I also read about the issues you can have with double lashes
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Destiny Kruse 4 years ago
I have oglidontia. It occurs in .2% of the population. It's a genetic defect that causes a person to have at least six less permanent teeth than average. I only have fourteen, yes fourteen, permanent teeth. My lower jaw is mostly baby teeth. I'm also missing a part of bone in my jaw, the part where they usually screw in implants. Between that surgery and implants they told my mom it would cost $100,000 to fix my teeth. At the time they planned to shave bone off my hip to implant in my jaw. It never happened and now it's too late. After the age of 27 bone doesn't grow back.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
I'm 27. Now I'm wondering if I need to take bone from some part of my body and put it on another and I've lost my chance. Can you tell it's 4:30am here?
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Sarah Luna 4 years ago
I'm more common...one of the 10%ers. I survived a grade 5 brain aneurysm and stroke. Next month will be the six year anniversary of The Day I Fell Down. :-)
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
I was born with an optic nerve pit on my retina (hole letting brain fluid into my eye. It was picked up in the standard eye test you get when you start Primary School. I was examined by many doctors, including a whole group of about 20 med students. They decided to use the relatively new eye surgery technique using laser. I was the youngest ever child (6yrs old) to have laser eye surgery. They used it to seal the hole and encapsulate the fluid. As it was a new technology they found that the laser wasn't actually strong enough the first time they did it so had to repeat the procedure with a stronger laser. Apparently it was mentioned in a case study in a medical journal but I have been unable to find it.
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
When I was in my mid 20s I found my vision deteriorating again, because of the fluid that was encapsulated in my eye. They decided to do a vitrectomy to scrape back the vitreous fluid and then cut into my retina to drain the brain fluid, then seal it again with the laser and let the vitreous fall back into place. Again this was a new technique and the surgeon needed to invent a new tool that would cut the microscopic hole in my eye.
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meowgie catster 4 years ago
Idk how rare this is but I have had 2 separate strains of influenza at the same time
Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
I have RLS, I don't think it's very rare but it's really annoying when your job requires 8 hours of sitting, when you travel long distances or when you try to sleep every night. It's sounds like a joke but it can make your life pretty miserable.
John Topper 4 years ago
Following a vasectomy there is a small chance you will develop a hematoma, basically a pocket of blood under the skin from persistent bleeding. I couldn't find any statistics about developing two of them, but I can tell you that it sucks. Spent an entire week walking around like a sumo wrestler.
Heather W 4 years ago
Just want to say, I tell my daughter mutants run in the family. Just not in the fun way. They tried to get my mother to abort me because I didn't have a tailbone. They said it meant I had spinal bifida. I don't. I say I'm just more evolved and didn't need it. My daughter had brain cancer (ependymoma) that is usually in a part of the brain they can't operate on. She had it on the top of her brain, between the 2 hemispheres, where the St Jude doctors had never seen it. That was when she was almost 3, she's now 16 and cancer free. She was upset: she was hoping for super powers lol
OhForSmegSake 4 years ago
We're mutants too! We have family members born with missing organs, extra organs, extra digits too. We blame the local- now shut down- uranium mine. I'm hoping the next generation has wings...
Load More Replies... 𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
I saw one of these posts the other day on BP and realised I fitted one of them. Have two rows of eyelashes! Didn’t know it was uncommon before
Zaza 4 years ago
I would have been a little jealous of you, but then I also read about the issues you can have with double lashes
Load More Replies... Destiny Kruse 4 years ago
I have oglidontia. It occurs in .2% of the population. It's a genetic defect that causes a person to have at least six less permanent teeth than average. I only have fourteen, yes fourteen, permanent teeth. My lower jaw is mostly baby teeth. I'm also missing a part of bone in my jaw, the part where they usually screw in implants. Between that surgery and implants they told my mom it would cost $100,000 to fix my teeth. At the time they planned to shave bone off my hip to implant in my jaw. It never happened and now it's too late. After the age of 27 bone doesn't grow back.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
I'm 27. Now I'm wondering if I need to take bone from some part of my body and put it on another and I've lost my chance. Can you tell it's 4:30am here?
Load More Replies... Sarah Luna 4 years ago
I'm more common...one of the 10%ers. I survived a grade 5 brain aneurysm and stroke. Next month will be the six year anniversary of The Day I Fell Down. :-)
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
I was born with an optic nerve pit on my retina (hole letting brain fluid into my eye. It was picked up in the standard eye test you get when you start Primary School. I was examined by many doctors, including a whole group of about 20 med students. They decided to use the relatively new eye surgery technique using laser. I was the youngest ever child (6yrs old) to have laser eye surgery. They used it to seal the hole and encapsulate the fluid. As it was a new technology they found that the laser wasn't actually strong enough the first time they did it so had to repeat the procedure with a stronger laser. Apparently it was mentioned in a case study in a medical journal but I have been unable to find it.
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
When I was in my mid 20s I found my vision deteriorating again, because of the fluid that was encapsulated in my eye. They decided to do a vitrectomy to scrape back the vitreous fluid and then cut into my retina to drain the brain fluid, then seal it again with the laser and let the vitreous fall back into place. Again this was a new technique and the surgeon needed to invent a new tool that would cut the microscopic hole in my eye.
Load More Replies... meowgie catster 4 years ago
Idk how rare this is but I have had 2 separate strains of influenza at the same time
Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
I have RLS, I don't think it's very rare but it's really annoying when your job requires 8 hours of sitting, when you travel long distances or when you try to sleep every night. It's sounds like a joke but it can make your life pretty miserable.
John Topper 4 years ago
Following a vasectomy there is a small chance you will develop a hematoma, basically a pocket of blood under the skin from persistent bleeding. I couldn't find any statistics about developing two of them, but I can tell you that it sucks. Spent an entire week walking around like a sumo wrestler.
Heather W 4 years ago
Just want to say, I tell my daughter mutants run in the family. Just not in the fun way. They tried to get my mother to abort me because I didn't have a tailbone. They said it meant I had spinal bifida. I don't. I say I'm just more evolved and didn't need it. My daughter had brain cancer (ependymoma) that is usually in a part of the brain they can't operate on. She had it on the top of her brain, between the 2 hemispheres, where the St Jude doctors had never seen it. That was when she was almost 3, she's now 16 and cancer free. She was upset: she was hoping for super powers lol
OhForSmegSake 4 years ago
We're mutants too! We have family members born with missing organs, extra organs, extra digits too. We blame the local- now shut down- uranium mine. I'm hoping the next generation has wings...
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