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

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awkwardusername · 23/08/2021 22:21

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!

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PhilCornwall1 · 24/08/2021 05:17

Is anyone else currently trying to see if they can fit their fist in their mouth?

Ummm, Of course not!!!

(Hmm now I'm right handed, so what did the post say? Ahh got it, let's try the left one.)

Mollymalone123 · 24/08/2021 05:23

@MangoSeason I too have an extra vertebrae! Has caused issues though when I had to have injections in my back-that’s when I found out I had the extra one
I also have webbed feet and can move my toes up and over each other
I have an excellent recall of what people said years ago and often freak people out with it but actually for me it’s more a curse than a blessing as I recall events and emotions I’d rather forget-I also remember number sequences and facts -Handy for a pub quiz
My DF does have photographic memory but I don’t.

userxx · 24/08/2021 06:21

@Downtherefordancing

I was born with 6 fingers on each hand. Think I’d have been burnt at the stake 200 years ago for being a witch 😊
Interesting! Do you still have the extra fingers ?
NettleMania · 24/08/2021 06:33

I have a bicornuate uterus.
It can cause issues during pregnancy/birth apparently, but I had two healthy babies and it wasn't actually 'discovered' by medics until the youngest was an adult.

Notdoingthis · 24/08/2021 07:10

I don't get brain freeze either.

NoHunGosh · 24/08/2021 07:23

I can pick my nose with my (v long, v pointy) tongue.

Thebookswereherfriends · 24/08/2021 07:32

I don’t have any sinuses. Discovered during an operation. Always wondered why I wasn’t affected by colds much.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 24/08/2021 07:44

I'm completely boring. No extra body parts, normal organs, no special skills.

I dated a soap actor for a few weeks when I was a teenager... don't ask me who as I don't even remember his name. (Teenage one, nothing dodgy, one of those background family members.(

osnapitzchloe · 24/08/2021 08:51

I always sneeze whenever I have mints or chewing gum

OatyLatte · 24/08/2021 08:53

I once had a dance with Ed Balls.

Figmentofimagination · 24/08/2021 08:54

Just remembered another one. I still have a baby tooth. My mum also still has a baby tooth in the same place.

I don't know why she has the same baby tooth, but mine is because my adult tooth didn't grow down, instead it grew sideways above all my other teeth at the front. Dentists won't remove the sideways tooth as it's not hurting me and it would mean all my other teeth would have to come out. So I live with it and the large gaps between my teeth.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 24/08/2021 09:04

I can't straighten my 4th finger on my right hand fully due to breaking it as a kid and being too embarrassed to tell anyone. I had roller skated over my own hand!

Also the littlest toe on each foot is raised and sits on top of the fourth toe. When I broke my leg and was plastered up someone panicked and thought they had plastered it too tight until I told them the other one was the same and I'd been born like that.

MsIreneWinters · 24/08/2021 09:07

I'm really good at knowing what the time is without looking at a clock/phone/watch. It's a tiny bit impressive but useless as I always have to look at clock/watch/phone to double check I'm right!

DrMadelineMaxwell · 24/08/2021 09:09

Like this.

What’s a weird/unusual but ultimately pointless, mundane fact about yourself?
catfunk · 24/08/2021 10:22

@DrMadelineMaxwell like an early version of Brian Harvey running over himself with his own car 🤣🤣🤣

catfunk · 24/08/2021 10:24

@osnapitzchloe

I always sneeze whenever I have mints or chewing gum
@osnapitzchloe me too
Livpool · 24/08/2021 10:36

Strangers love talking to me. DH says I have a friendly face.

I am not friendly though

DrMadelineMaxwell · 24/08/2021 10:48

@catfunk Grin

Downtherefordancing · 24/08/2021 10:53

userxx
There were no bones in my extra fingers so apparently they just tied cotton around the base of them and they withered and dropped off.
I still have lumps where they used to be and the skin there is very sensitive.

Longdistance · 24/08/2021 10:56

I’ve another one. I’ve never had teeth 4 and 5 in my bottom right side of my mouth. I believe I had milk teeth there but my adult teeth never grew. I also had a brace fitted as I had a tooth in my palette and that had to be brought forward. Apparently the missing teeth is hereditary.

justaweeone · 24/08/2021 10:58

I have graves in my garden

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 24/08/2021 11:09

@Longdistance

I’ve another one. I’ve never had teeth 4 and 5 in my bottom right side of my mouth. I believe I had milk teeth there but my adult teeth never grew. I also had a brace fitted as I had a tooth in my palette and that had to be brought forward. Apparently the missing teeth is hereditary.
Oh that's unlucky, my missing premolars were a matching pair, one on each side, and they would've had to remove some premolars anyway for me to get the braces I desperately needed for other reasons. It means I had my remaining two #5 premolars and the baby teeth over my missing #5s taken out, whereas I think they usually remove #4s, but otherwise my missing teeth had no real consequences.
Cahu58 · 24/08/2021 11:13

My sweat doesn't smell and it's linked to having dry ear wax!

Sunbird24 · 24/08/2021 11:29

If I eat a bag of Haribo Tangfastics I fall asleep about 20 mins later.

CounsellorTroi · 24/08/2021 11:29

Another one - I have a little knot of blood vessels at the back of my right eye. My optician sent me to a ophthalmologist to have it checked out and apparently it is just congenital and nothing to worry about.

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