What’s a weird/unusual but ultimately pointless, mundane fact about yourself?

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Mine is that I always end up sleeping with my head at the foot of the bed. Don’t know how I end up there or why I do it. Partner never notices me performing backflips either!

I can lick my own elbow

If I scratch my right nipple I feel sensation on the inside of my right calf

When I was 12 I broke my femur. I had an op to inset metal plate, they used soluble stiches. And again when metal plate was removed 18 months later.
20 odd yrs later I saw a small blue wirey thread sticking out of the bottom of my scar...

I can read at stupid speeds, and have done since I could read

To add now I've RTFT, similar to the reading in paragraphs
So if I look at a book, I can read the page, I don't read by sentences but by pages and around 1500wpm

Was born with two sets of adult canines. No baby ones. Was not useful.

@SallyOMalley

After a particularly nasty sinus infection 15 years ago, I now have to shut my right eye when I blow my nose. If I don't, fluid spurts out of it.

I can blow bubbles in my right eye if I pinch my nose and blow!

@MollyBloomYes - well it’s me saying it’s old, but not medieval, Ancient Greek I think. As in, Jason and the Argonauts.

Anyway, that makes perfect sense and I can see why is caused a stir. How weird but fascinating! Thanks for coming back and explaining

@NeverDropYourMoonCup

I have one perfectly normal detached earlobe and one that's attached and slightly wonky/pointed.

DP doesn't have toenails on his little toes, which he's passed on to his DC.

I have the same with my earlobes!

I can also turn my lower eyelid/lashes inwards.. proper life skill.

Not me but a friend v recently had to have an operation as her foot was extremely painful.
They removed 2 rusty nails and a sewing needle and she has no idea how they got in there. No entry marks noticed by the medical staff either so they have no idea how long they have been in there either.

My baby granddaughter has quite a bit of hair on the outer curve of her ears, it's short but noticeable because it's dark. My DS (her father) was adopted by us so I don't know if it's a family trait, but at various stages of his childhood I have suspected that he's part werewolf so it might be that.

@lborgia Aaah that's interesting! I would love to be tested for that! It could also be your ADD as well, as I've heard it's quite common with us folks, but could be wrong

I learned to say my alphabet backwards before I learned it forward.

@AvantGardening

My uterus was heart shaped

Ahh snap!

I have a geographical tongue

I can recite all the books of the New Testament and got 100% in a temperance exam when I was 12.

I can also sing 'how much is that doggy in the window' backwards.

None of these skills are in high demand...

Both my kids were born with blisters on their thumbs from where they'd been sucking them in the womb.

@Shoxfordian I also read like that. I may be wrong but judging by your user name... did you do English at Oxford. I did and my fast reading was the only way I could cram it all in!

I can hear harmonies in songs that aren't actually there. I can sing them straight away, I assumed everybody could until I was an adult. I also retain song lyrics even to songs I have heard only once.

I can roll my irises all the way back so other people only see the whites. Kids call it zombie eyes

@lborgia yep I completely realised Jason and Argonauts a few hours after I posted! But yes, not a name that would be in use in medieval times! It was a fantastic module, I've still got the 'dictionary' we used somewhere and still quite like having a guess at where surnames come from, you can even narrow them down to whereabouts in the country they originated dependent on spelling eg Baker is from the South but Baxter is from the north but both originate from a bloke who made bread 😂 Some can even be narrowed down to even more accurate locations but sadly I've forgotten the really precise ones off the top of my head.

I'll stop now!

[quote lborgia]@BippityBoppity87 - there a specific gene that decides your reaction to caffeine, I've been tested for it.

They were doing other stuff and I asked them about it because I've had a life time of people being very bossy, trying to keep me away from caffeine.

It proved it had almost zero effect on me. Or rather, it just means you metabolise it very quickly if I remember right.

I also have ADD though... maybe they'll find a link in the genes?![/quote]
This is so so interesting! Caffeine has no effect on me either, and I am awaiting referral for ADD/ADHD assessment.

@MrsG30

I don't understand how it would because ADD is a lack of executive functioning/dopamine...ahhh... actually, maybe the caffeine works in place of the missing dopamine, so brings us up to "normal" levels of brain activity, rather than buzzed?!

Who knows. In my next life I'm studying neuroscience!

Caffeine has no effect on me either but I think it’s because I drink it all day, I can have a coffee then go straight to bed! I pee lots but that’s it.

@Bearsinmotion

I have a phenomenal sense of direction, I almost always know where north is and hardly ever get lost, inherited from Ddad. I was well into adulthood when I realised not everyone has this skill and it still confuses me when I am out with people who don’t just know how to get back to the car or hotel in a place they haven’t visited before without a map. DS seems to have inherited this, DD has not.

I have this too! You could blind fold me, drive me somewhere and "release me" and I could tell you exactly which way we came from!!

DH says I'm like a homing pigeon.

I also get perplexed at other people who can't find their car in a car park or get lost in shopping malls/city centres, I'm like "eh?"

I have a very long and flexible tongue. I can touch the tip of my nose and I used to gross other kids out at school by pretending to pick my nose with it. I can also make it into a clover leaf shape in my mouth.
I am a "supertaster". I found this out at university. Lab professor handed round pieces of filter paper and told us to put them on our tongues for an experiment. My lab partner did it and nothing happened. So I did it and was immediately hit by the most awful taste ever. Meanwhile lab professor was pissing himself laughing.
Yeah, I have a special tongue.

I'm really good as passing NG tubes