"I Can Smell The Illness": These 46 Weird Body Quirks Prove That The Human Body Is Fascinating

I can't be a ninja, my ankles crack on every step.

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!

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.

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).

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.

I had two v*ginas and have two uteruses. I’m being dead serious.

I have to push air out from behind my eye or else I get a massive headache. Direct finger to eyelid contact, a little pressure and roll it across.

I also hear a weird rainstick-like sound in the back of my neck when I'm laying down or hungry.

My friends, and boyfriend calls me a “furnace” because I am constantly very hot. Not like normal hot, but they wince sometimes when I touch them with my hands because they’re just hot. I’ve noticed my hands turn kinda bright red when very hot. Is it a quirk? No it sucks. But do I stay fine in winter? Oh absolutely. Am I the female version of human torch? Perhaps


Edit: woah. Lots of you here. Let’s see. Uhhhh first off, seems like I might be safe from being turned into shroom zombies… for now. Secondly, there’s so many of you that are heaters. I feel less alone. Thirdly, someone asked about my Blood pressure I think, and well, it’s not great. Though, I’m on year three of doing surgeries. Someone also mentioned thyroid, and honestly I don’t know. I don’t know when the hot started, but I wish it would end. There’s lots of jokes when being a heater, but having someone wince at the touch of you most days does take a bit to my mental health. (Which I already do struggle with) so since there’s a lot of you here if there’s any advice you can give on how to fix me that would be nice. Almost 23yo, my fingies hurt when they get super hot, hurts to move my joints. And my overall body is a furnace. Okay that’s allllllll. Carry on, and thank you for those sharing about the other furnaces you have in your life. I know it’s cheesy, but I really did feel less alone.

I'm 29 and still have a baby tooth. One of the molars I had as a kid never fell out, so it's an adult canine on one side and a child's molar on the other.

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.

My butt crack is crooked because an extra vertebrae in my spine caused some scoliosis down there. I have zero pain, just a crooked a*s lol.

Not me but an old friend, she once got hit in the nose a particular way and ever since, if she blows hard enough through her nose (blowing nose, laughing, etc.), her nose will whistle. Yes, her nose can f*****g whistle and when she’s laughing, it’s the funniest s**t ever and only makes the laughing worse.

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.

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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.

I get ravenously hungry about three days before getting sick with a virus. Every single time.

I have a bicornate (heart-shaped) uterus. Not as cute as it sounds. Was shocked I didn't know much earlier in life considering the 22 yrs of medical tests, procedures, and issues I've had that've involved lots of imaging and a laproscopic surgery.

I had a growth on my right testicle. The Urologist assumed that it was cancer, and scheduled surgery. The pathology report came back, the tumor was not cancerous. It was deemed to be of Mullerin origin. That is a precursor to an ovary!!!!

I don't really feel hunger unless my blood sugar is dropping real low, cus i get dizzy and hand shakes. Like I get the sensation but it doesn't bother me, eating is more of an annoying chore than something I actually enjoy. If I ever have a genie grant me 3 wishes the first would be to never need to eat again.

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

I grow a winter coat. My body hair gets noticeably (to me) longer and thicker in the winter months.

I can only wink with my left eye, not my right one.

My parents joke it must have been from the lead paint in my crib.