“It’s A Sight I’ll Never Forget”: 50 Unique Physical Features That Fascinated People

I went to school with someone who had no legs and small stumps for arms, a victim of meningitis (vaccinate your kids people!). He had a fantastic attitude about the whole thing, and he ran as fast as any other kid with his prosthetics.

I had a friend who didn't grow any body hair, just the hair on her head and eyebrows.

My great aunt had no fingernails. Born that way. Very weird.

I have no iris. It is pretty rare.

A black man with the most unbelievably ice blue eyes I’ve ever seen. He had a very smooth but unrecognizable accent and sometimes I’m convinced I met some kind of deity that day.

My friend grows hair out of his gums in his mouth. We looked it up and only a handful of cases worldwide have been reported.

My grandfather's brother had a scar on his torso, faded but gnarly. I asked what it was. It was the remnant of a tumor extraction. Not that weird you'd say, people get tumors all the time. Well, this tumor was Fetus In Fetu; the man had devoured his twin in-utero and carried its corpse along inside his upper abdomen until he was almost 50. Considering there's roughly 200 known cases of Fetus In Fetu documented in the world, I'd say seeing the aftermath of one is rather rare.

I didn't know him, but one time I was helping a customer at a grocery store I worked at and he threw his head back and laughed, and I saw he had two rows of top teeth.

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I have an extra row of teeth behind my front, top teeth. There are 6 of them up there. Kinda like a shark but way more lame.

I saw pictures but didn’t see in person. A distant relative had a baby born with his internal organs on the outside. The doctors were able to fix him up and he is like 11 years old now.

You can’t see mine but I have three kidneys. I was born that way. Two are in the normal spots and my extra is lower midline. My grandma had three also so I guess it runs in the family. I should have donated it when I was younger. Doctors said it’s smaller but functional and would be good to donate to a child because it would likely grow with them.

My wife has the cutest dimple I’ve ever seen and I’ve never seen it on anyone else. It’s right below her eye when she laughs. I know it doesn’t compare to other comments but thought it was worth mentioning. lol.

Had a guy doing some work on a previous rental I lived in, his pupils were rectangular and uncentered.

I'm missing a rib on one side. Just born without it. I don't know how rare it is or isn't, but I've never met anyone else who has it. A quick Google tells me it's associated with other genetic conditions, but I don't have any.

I always knew because when I was a kid I noticed my ribcage was visibly asymmetric and counted them up. But nobody believed me until I was in my 20s and had to get X-Rays done, and the doctor was like... "huh."

I worked with a guy who has some rare form of hyperdontia. Like his body will just randomly decide to grow extra teeth and he has to go get them pulled.

Apparently his dental X-rays look super [messed] up.

Just last week, I found out that my 14 year old cousin doesn’t have fingerprints—including footprints.

We had a girl in one of my Army units that had no collar bones, she could make her shoulders touch.

I knew someone who had one fully brown eye, and one eye that was 3/4 brown and 1/4 blue. Just a pizza-slice-shaped chunk of pure blue amidst the brown.

I met a guy, his buddies called him "redman". He was not a ginger but his skin was red. An anomalous red, not a shade of brown, Red, unlike any ethnic group. Some sort of affliction I am sure. Caucasian guy by ethnicity.

I knew a guy who had freckles in his eyes.

My dad has a birthmark on his face shaped *exactly* like Africa.