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!

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery

I can pick up things with my toes. Useful when playing badminton barefoot, but not for much else.

I’m pretty damn good at catching and killing fleas. Not a talent anyone wants to need to develop.

Somehow I’ve also ended with my head at the foot of the bed a couple of times. I have no idea. DH also has never noticed.

I can still chew my own toenails, if I wanted to that is

Me too! I can pick up a tennis ball with one foot. Ddad refers to my feet as “monkey toes”

Oh and for some reason I can smell spiders. I hate big spiders(lived abroad so maybe that's where that started) but I swear if I enter a room, I bloody smell it if there's one lurking about. Proved it numerous times.

I am exceptionally short, 4'8 only.

Couple of ones.

If I cough because something has irritated me (drink gone down the wrong way, breath caught in my throat, food got stuck) that irritation spreads to my nose and I can't stop sneezing/partial sneezing (all the build up but none of the release) naturally. I have to force myself to stop by repeatedly blowing my nose to stop the irritation and sneezing. Feel like it's payback for making fun of my mum always sneezing 7 times in a row (I used to shout 7 like Len Goodman 😁).

Other 1 is I fell and cut my head open when I was a toddler. Was given dissolvable stitches. Expect they weren't all dissolvable as I pulled one out of my forehead a couple of years ago.

Lily what do they smell like? Is it all spiders, or just the big 'orrible 'airy bath spiders?

I've got twinny/webbed toes on my right foot.

I sneeze when I've had enough to eat .

Both inherited from my Dear old Dad .

I’ve never been on holiday,weekend away or anything with my husband or children. Last one I had was when I was 18 and it was with my parents

I don’t get brain freeze either, I get a pain all the way down my back instead like it’s freezing my oesophagus. I have chiari malformation so I figured that’s why maybe. I also have a variety of very rare conditions, which is also fun!

I never get the hiccups; I only ever have ONE hiccup, and it's over.

And yes, I know it's spelled hiccough but I don't care.

Third nipple here also, apparently they are really common.

I remember being a teenager and being acutely embarrassed about it.

I can do the Vulcan "live long and prosper" greeting thing perfectly with my left hand but not at all with my right! I am right handed too!

I also want to know what brain freeze is! My two dds and ex husband get but I don't understand what it is exactly. I have two popliteal veins in one leg! Discovered this when they were checking if I had another DVT in my leg. Which I did so my extra vein might be somewhat useful😁.

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.

Re spiders. Its a burnt peppery smell. Almost a sneezy thing but I dont sneeze. It's a hot burn feeling as if someone lit a piece of dry paper near me.

Maybe it's an allergy?

I can write backwards fluently.

I used to know, and had a few dates, with a semi famous person many many years. ago, he came from another country, and worked here for a while. He ended up being a bit of a thief when he came here,, and also caused a fair amount of trouble when he went back to his own country..

@blanketyblank37

I can write backwards fluently.

Is that you, Mrs Bradshaw?

I can't straighten the ring finger on my right hand without also straightening my little finger. I can on my left hand. And I used to be able to do it with the right because I could do the Brownie/Guide salute and I can't any more.

I can also pick things up with my toes and move my little toes independently of the others. So can my dc so I thought it was normal until I read this thread.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

I suspect that I can see colour better than most people, especially yellow. I have no proof of this and I'm just basing it on conversations about colour (I crochet and quilt, there has been a lot of colour based conversations).

Tetrachromacy. I have it too. Was your dad colour blind?

I have a 6th lumbar vertebrae and 12 supernumerary “wisdom” teeth. Neither of these is particular rare though.

I only have 20% of my spleen left, doctors are always confused as to why the whole thing wasn’t removed.

I can touch every area of my back well enough to wash it myself/apply and rub in creams.

I’m the descendant of Tibetan buddhists

12 supernumerary “wisdom” teeth

Where?! How the hell do you fit twelve massive extra teeth in a normal human gob 😅 I'm probably just jealous — I was congenitally missing two premolars, and was compensated only with extra cusps on some molars (seemingly specially designed for unexpectedly mashing my tongue with), as well as the aforementioned extra nipples, a couple of palmaris longus tendons (common, but not ubiquitous) and the Linburg–Comstock variation in both hands 🙄 I think I was made of leftovers.

They are not massive though! About the size of a baby tooth through to a half a match head and all are deep in the gum and not exposed. Four sit under my exisiting wisdom teeth and the other 8 are deep in the gum behind them. I only call them wisdom teeth as they are right back where the wisdom teeth are.

That's so cool. Your x-rays must look epic.