20 Times People Shared Something Weird And Interesting About Their Body

Ashley Hunte
A person's ankle with several black dots forming three intersecting lines.
reddit | CatioDaddio

To be honest, there's really no such thing as "normal." Everyone has things about them that make them unique. And when people show those things off, they make the world a lot more interesting.

The people in this list have some pretty interesting things going on with their bodies. Some are born with them (like having differently-colored eyes), and some had them happen randomly, or temporarily. But hey, it's still cool!

"My son and I have a freckle on the same part of our hands. Mine on the left, his on the right."

Two hands, one left and one right, of different sizes. Each hand has a small freckle on the palm, just underneath the pinky.
reddit | DubblM

It's almost like looking at a mirror image! I guess it's pretty safe to say that OP and their son are related, but the odds of them having mirroring freckles still seems really low.

"My partial heterochromia looks like islands."

Two images showing island-shaped brown spots in a person's blue-green irises.
reddit | ThemShinanigans22

Heterochromia is so cool because it looks different in everyone. I totally didn't know you could have heterochromia like this! Especially since OP has blue eyes, those spots really do look like an island chain.

"My sister in law’s hand after walking the dogs in Wisconsin cold."

A hand in which the middle finger is pale from lack of blood circulation.
reddit | nineteenthirties

Looks like Reynaud's to me. Some people's hands, fingers, feet, etc. just go numb after being cold. It's always kind of interesting to look at, but also super terrifying (even though it's not terribly dangerous).

"The tip of my middle finger fell off when I broke my arm as a kid, now I have a funky right hand and can’t hold a pen properly."

A hand with one very short, stunted nail on the middle finger.
reddit | frogminded

OP clarified that the finger probably fell off from a lack of circulation when her arm was in a cast. Scary, but apparently it's not painful or anything.

"My arm naturally bends like this."

A person holding their arm up in a mirror. The arm is bent at an odd angle.
reddit | whisperskeep

I'm not gonna lie, I've been staring at this picture for a while trying to figure out how OP is doing that. It almost feels like some kind of super power.

"I was born with only four fingers on my left hand."

A human hand that naturally only has 3 fingers and a thumb.
reddit | Marrtyr11

In other words, OP has one hand that looks like that of the average cartoon character. Funny enough, they also mentioned that very few people brought it up upon meeting them for the first time.

"I burned my hand through a tea towel."

Part of a hand with the palm facing the camera. On two fingers and partially the third, dark marks can be seen in a woven pattern.
reddit | kurtZger

That's got to hurt. But at the same time, the pattern is, like, super interesting. It's probably the only good that can come out of something so painful.

"Weird lines in my skin I have forming on my arm."

An arm extended outward, showing stretch marks around the bicep.
reddit | zopilote_machine_

To be honest, those marks aren't really that weird. After all, they're just stretch marks; it's probably weirder if you don't have at least a few somewhere on your body.

"The hair on my arm which my cast was removed from has grown a lot more than normal."

Two hands. On the right, little hair is visible around the hand and wrist. On the left, the wrist and bottom of the hand are visibly much hairier.
reddit | jogjelsv

I'm not gonna lie, I have no idea what's going on here. Like, did OP's hair grow faster under the cast? Did it just get darker or something? Who knows, honestly...

"I got a hand massager that leaves my hand/wrist like this when I’m done."

A hand with the palm outstretched. Circular marks are visible along the palm and forearm.
reddit | TerryHatesTests

That probably looks more painful than it actually is. I guess it's kind of like if you sleep in a weird position and you get a mark on your face from your blanket or something.

"Burned my arm with coffees, ended up in a [sic] interesting pattern."

A forearm with patches of burnt skin in a row.
reddit | Cristi57875e

Minor burns always suck, but they do tend to leave you with some pretty interesting scars for a few months. This person's arm almost looks like it has writing on it.

"I have Vitiligo and Heterochromia."

A man's face. Patches of the hair and skin on his face are visibly lighter than the rest, and one eye is blue while the other is brown.
reddit | brysizzlle

I don't think I've seen a person who has complete heterochromia and vitiligo before. That's actually really cool.

"I have the letter 'N' on my left hand and the letter 'M' on my right hand."

Two images of a person's palms. One palm has lines that form the letter N, while the other has lines that form the letter M.
reddit | castro94

The different lines on peoples hands are always so cool! I wonder what somebody who practices palmistry (telling fortunes based off the lines on your palms) would say about this person.

"I have Brachydactyly type D, or Toe Thumbs on both my hands."

A hand. The thumb on the hand is shaped like a big toe.
reddit | Venom140

According to OP, their thumbs work like normal thumbs, they just happen to be shaped like toes. It's interesting, that's for sure.

"My strand of hair that fell off that's black, brown, and white."

A strand of hair on a grey background. The colour of the hair transitions from black, to brown, to white.
reddit | Ch3zzcak328

A strand of hair with gray roots isn't that strange. But like the comment section under this post, I'm wondering whether that strand is super thick like a whisker, or if the zoom is just that good.

"Here’s a hand with really long fingers."

An outstretched hand. The fingers are disproportionately long.
reddit | Evil-Zelda

I always thought I had fingers that were kind of long, but looking at OP's hand, makes my fingers feel very small all of a sudden. Still, that's pretty neat.

"I have complete heterochromia AND physiologic anisocoria (different sized pupils)."

A person's eyes. One eye is blue with a normal sized pupil, while the other eye is green/hazel with a much larger pupil.
reddit | BenR7H

I definitely didn't know that you could have different sized pupils! I swear, this list has taught me more about the human body than what I learned at school.

"My fiancé's arm hair goes in a fun swirl."

A person's arm. Hair on the arm makes a circular pattern rather than facing in a single direction.
reddit | thicc_d0nut

That almost reminds me of a finger print. Like, how they kind of look a little swirly. Now I'm wondering if our body hair patterns are as unique as fingerprints...

"This 2-inch gray hair protruding from my forehead."

The side of a person's forehead. A pair of fingers can be seen tugging on a long strand of white hair that's protruding out of the forehead.
reddit | w11

I feel like we all have at least one weird, long gray or white hair that sticks out of the most random place. I found one on my back once.

"Portuguese man o' war stinging tentacle wrapped around my ankle."

A person's ankle with black dots that form three intersecting lines on it.
reddit | CatioDaddio

From what I can tell, a sting from one of those things isn't deadly, but it can be super painful. And I guess it leaves a tattoo-like mark on your skin for a while, too.