“My Kidneys Are Attached”: 25 Of The Randomest Body Quirks People Have

Our increased access to medical knowledge has yielded some truly unexpected results this time around. Someone online asked people, “What is a little quirk about your body that you don’t think other people have?” While some responses could be considered neat party tricks, others might have you running to Google for more info. It’s one thing to think that something is possible; it’s a whole other thing to KNOW that something is possible. If you think you’re ready for this intriguing level of enlightenment, scroll to the gallery below. 

#1

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I have a birthmark on my pubic mound shaped like an arrow pointing down. It’s not blobby or wonky, it’s a perfect, symmetrical arrow. I have had to have the same conversation with nearly every sexual partner- no, it’s not a tattoo, see it’s brown like a birthmark; yes, it *does* look an arrow that points down; yes, I’m *sure* it’s a birthmark; haha yes it’s very funny yep.

The worst/best part is I lived in Kansas City for several years, and it’s the same shape as the Chiefs logo so Kansas City dudes were even more extra about it.

#2

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I am colourblind in one eye and not the other.

Edit: mine is caused by MS. Optic neuritis due to MS. I went completely blind in that eye for several weeks and then when the vision came back first it was very close to my face only, then black and white, then I could only see blue but it was the most beautiful blue I’d ever seen.. Like any blue was glowing with a lighted backdrop, then I saw the rest of the colours except not the red and greens (i can only see true red and true greens) and my vision overall is pretty damaged. I fail all slides for red-green colourblind in that one eye at the optometrists. Orange and yellows are kind of sepia. I see a lot of sepia things in that eye.
My blues/purples are still a little bit extra pretty but only a little extra .. It’s been years since it happened and it won’t recover more now.

#3

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My kidneys are attached to each other. Found out in a scan. It’s called a horseshoe kidney apparently.

#4

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I don’t produce any antibodies and rely on antibody infusions and general herd immunity to stay alive. Thank you to everyone who has ever donated plasma. F**k your RFK for doing everything you can to k**l me.

#5

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I made it to 30 years old before this was noticed and pointed out to me.

I was chugging water at dinner at my husband started laughing and was like “why are you doing that?”

Turns out when I swallow, one eyebrow rapidly twitches, very little twitches but completely uncontrollably.

Like my swallow reflex is hardwired to my eyebrow. It’s now my party trick.

#6

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I sneeze when I get turned on. No idea why. I could sneeze for a valid reason and my sweetie thinks I’m ready to go. I’m not gonna argue with her!

#7

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I have 5 nipples. Two regular, three additional. All lactate. I was quite the spectacle while pregnant/breast feeding 🙃

#8

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I’ve got super smell or something 🤷‍♀️I can diagnose people.

– low blood sugar (diabetes) smells like chemically cleaner rotted. High blood sugar and it smells like heated PLA filament. Slightly sweet.

– ear infections smell like Camembert cheese.

– strep throat smells like yeasty bread and coins held in a sweaty hand combined.

– pregnancy has this sweet musty smell to it. Like the mildest plum or nectarine. I’ve gotten in some very awkward situations when I asked when someone was due and they didn’t know they were pregnant yet.

– if someone has a cold, pneumonia, Gastrointestinal issues, infection or other ailment and I can ‘smell it’ it’s bacterial. If I can’t ‘smell the illness’ it’s viral. Which made Covid extra freaky!

– Had a 2nd grade girl in my class my first year of teaching who had seizures a few times a week, they were usually absence ones and she would recover fairly quickly. I could smell one coming with a 10-15 minute heads up from the other side of the classroom. She also occasionally had a different tonic seizure and would go temporarily blind for a few hours afterwards. Those I couldn’t smell coming.

jadeycakes:
I’m like this as well. It’s annoying having such a strong sense of smell most of the time but it does come in handy sometimes! Last week I smelled natural gas one time just a tiny bit. No one else could smell it. An HVAC person came out to test it and sure enough there was a very small gas leak at the back of the furnace in the back of a closet facing a wall behind a door.

I’ve joked I could start a business where people call me to find leaks in their house or to confirm they’re not going insane smelling something no one else can.

It’s also hard balancing wanting to mention to someone that they smell different on a chemical level without being insulting. I can usually tell when someone I see often has started a new vitamin or medicine.

#9

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I have one arm, two uvulas, and an extra rib.

BigWoodsCatNappin:

What in the ikea human.

#10

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My tail bone is way longer than normal, it hurts like hell to sit on the floor, I can’t do sit ups, if I sit on your lap you would feel it lol a few of my kids got it too. My mom also has it. Idk of anyone else, we just were meant to have tails I guess.

#11

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I can vomit at any time just with the power of my mind.

When I was a kid, if I didn’t get my way, regardless of where I was, I would just start vomiting.

One day my Grandma slapped the s**t out of me in a K-Mart and I never did it again.

smarmiebastard:

This talent has come in really handy twice. Once when I was three oysters in, and noticed a tiny red worm wriggling around in my fourth oyster. I freaked out cause I didn’t know if it was a really bad parasite and decided I needed to throw up all the oysters. Got them all out no problem while my boyfriend stuck his finger down his throat for half an hour and never managed to make himself vomit. He ended up with food poisoning, I didn’t.

The other time I had a bad migraine and asked to leave work early, but my boss wouldn’t let me. I felt like I was going to die but they just wouldn’t let me go home no matter how much I pleaded my case. Finally I just made myself throw up right in front of my boss (and a little on her shoes) and got sent home immediately.

#12

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If I go from indoor light or the shade into direct sunlight I sneeze.

Moving on a sunny day is a fun time when I’m around.

#13

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Sometimes when I laugh or cry I completely lose motor function in my hands and they’re essentially useless clubs for the next five minutes until i calm down. It’s apparently a neurological thing associated with narcolepsy… but I’m not narcoleptic.

edit: d**n we’re all learning a lot about ourselves huh 😭 this is called cataplexy so look it up if this happens to you!

#14

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I have Grapheme Color Synesthesia. In other words, every letter and number in my head has a color associated with it. It has ever since I was old enough to remember letters and numbers.

I’m not the only person to have it – though it is somewhat rare – but the odds of two people having the same color/letter/number combos are practically impossible, so I am fairly confident that, at least, my specific synesthesia is entirely unique (as is each other person’s).

#15

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I have two uteruses -uteri if you will.

dumbmb:
My sister’s mom does too. She had two kids out of one, and two from the other. They eventually cauterized them because she kept alternating periods and bleeding all month.

#16

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Not so much a quirk more so a pain in the a*s but I have a rare cold allergy (not raynauds) where if my body rapidly gets cold the affected area swells up and I develop hives everywhere

Passed out in a pool once because of this.

#17

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I found out during an X-ray for something unrelated that my esophagus is kinked because it’s a little too long. And that it’s in fact not normal to be in a lot of chest pain every time I eat and need to drink water to push the food through.

#18

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I’m literally hard headed. I have no frontal sinus, where they should be is just bone. Means I never get sinus headaches.

#19

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I have a red birthmark on my face that swells up about four weeks before I get a positive pregnancy test. It has a 100% accuracy rate with all four of my kids.

#20

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Periauricular sinus and a whole bunch of surgical scars. Plus the ability to hear dog whistles and super low bass/vibrations normally outside the range of human hearing.

I’ll hear engines or bass playing in a car 3 blocks away when my husband can’t hear a thing unless he goes outside and gets closer to it. It’s actually pretty annoying bc the bass is physically painful when it’s loud.

#21

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My second and third toes are conjoined 3/4 of the way up. Can’t move em independently, and yes I’m a good swimmer.

#22

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I don’t have a sense of smell! I have no memory of ever smelling anything, doesn’t matter how strong the smell is: perfume, gasoline, rotten food, nothing.

I can taste sweet, sour, bitter, etc, just fine but I can’t really tell what some spices taste like.

The main downsides have been not being able to tell if food is spoiled, sometimes it’s easy to go by looks but theres been times where I’ve realized it’s gone bad by tasting it or getting sick which is not fun, there’s also a risk of not being able to smell gas leaks, I also get worried I stink!

On the flip side, I can’t smell nasty stuff. Cleaning gross thinks is less difficult for sure lol

I do wish I could smell flowers, food, perfumes, the rain, coffee and all of those things but out of all our senses I think it’s the easiest to live without.

#23

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I have chunks of metal that got embedded into my body which slowly work their way out over time. I got one to pop out of my hand last night.

#24

I can withdraw my testicles into my body cavity at will, like an animal.

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#25

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When I was seven, I was in Eastern Washington down on the Snake River in a place called Hell’s Canyon (it gets extremely hot in the summer). I had on my favorite green little kid’s bikini, and was eating ice cream. A bit of the ice cream dropped onto my stomach, but being a kid, I didn’t bother going down to the river to wash it off. I eventually fell asleep in the sun, and when I woke up, the ice cream had baked into my skin, staining it. I still have it; it looks a lot like a splotchy birthmark. To this day, whenever my mother sees it, she says “I wonder how you got that mark on your stomach; you weren’t born with a birthmark.” And, as always, I reply “It’s my ice cream stain.” Her reply never changes: “That’s ridiculous, you can’t get a stain from ice cream.” (My mother is a very practical woman.) “Well, then” I say, “How else do you explain it?” She never has an answer, because not only does she know the story so well, but she is just as aware as I am of the seven prior years that I lived without that mark on my belly. I spilled ice cream on my stomach, fell asleep in the baking hot sun, and when I awoke, I had a stain that I could never wash off. It might sound silly, but I’m looking at the splotch right now, 44 years later.

werewolf-barmitzva:
When I was a teenager, every year we would volunteer at a music festival and work the whole day under the sun. I got very tan each year, and every time I would get these weird darker stains on my thighs that would maintain until the winter/spring. Some of my friends had it too, not all of them though. It took us like 5 years to understand where it was coming from – we were cutting limes all afternoon to prepare mojitos, some lime would spill on our thighs and literally burn onto our skins. I had a really big one that lasted a couple of years.