This is a reminder that eeeeeveryone’s body is unique and different. However, some people have a body part that is SO unique and different that they feel inclined to share it with the world. So, I rounded up a bunch of the top-voted ones from Reddit’s r/mildlyinteresting as of late, and they did not disappoint. Check it out:
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Like this person who was born “without the rest” of their ear, the result of microtia, where a baby is born with a small and not fully formed ear.
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This very flexible person who can make their thumb and pinkie touch each other on the back side of their hand:
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This person whose hands get splotches sometimes that go away in less than 15 minutes, which might be bier spots, a type of vascular anomaly.
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And this person with Marfan’s syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects connective tissue and usually affects the heart, eyes, blood vessels, and skeleton.
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This person who’s had an off-center pupil since birth:
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And this person who took a great photo of their sectoral, or partial, heterochromia, which occurs when there are two different colors in the same iris.
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This person who had a patch of hair “fall out” a year and a half ago only for it to grow back curly:
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This person who has a patch on their leg that doesn’t get goosebumps:
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This person who has a self-described “weird gap” under their tongue, which turned out to be mandibular tori, i.e. bony growths on the floor of your mouth.
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And this person who has a “split,” aka a bifid, uvula in their mouth:
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This person who actually GROWS tiny, extra teeth — like this one that they pulled from the roof of their mouth:
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And this person who has FIVE wisdom teeth:
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This person whose finger is now misshapen after removing a ring that’d been on for 2.5 years straight:
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This person who, due to a pigmentation, has different colored hair on their legs — blond on the left, and black on the right:
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This person whose right index finger is longer than all their other fingers:
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This person whose blood circulation makes it look like their middle finger belongs to someone else (and is likely a result of Raynaud’s phenomenon):
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Or this person who doesn’t have middle knuckles on any of their fingers or toes:
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This person whose left eye grows a single, fragile grey eyelash that grows as long as they’ll let it:
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This person who actually has a tooth in the ROOF of their mouth:
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And this person who discovered their wisdom teeth were actually striped after they had them removed:
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Finally, this person whose veins on their foot forms the number “2”:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/fascinating-body-abnormalities-august-2023