• People are all different, and that means some people can do weird stuff with their
body that most others can’t.
Some of these things you can try yourself.
Many of them you probably shouldn’t.
But at any rate, here are 15 things most of you probably can’t do.
15 – Tickling Yourself • Most people can’t tickle themselves.
And if you can’t, that’s actually a good thing.
• The ability to tickle yourself means you’re able to disassociate your own actions from
your brain’s expectations.
• And that, friends, is a sign of schizophrenia.
So… this isn’t medical advice or anything, but if you’re able to tickle yourself, maybe
talk to somebody about it?
14 – Dying by Holding Your Breath • Your body has a sort of failsafe against
holding your breath.
• Have you ever noticed how the longer you hold your breath, the harder it is to not
gasp for air?
• That’s because you’re hardwired to breathe after a certain point, no matter what.
Of course, if you hold your breath while underwater, or somewhere else where you can’t get oxygen,
that’s a different story.
And anyway, don’t try this, just in case.
13 – Finger Rotation • Here’s something you can try without
trying to kill yourself.
• Take the index fingers of both your hands, and draw a clockwise circle with them.
• Now go faster.
Faster!
Now one of your hands is now moving counter-clockwise, and you probably didn’t even notice.
Your brain sort of kicks into autopilot at a certain point to cause this.
• Incidentally, if you try to move your arms in circles in opposite directions, you’ll
have similar difficulty.
12 – Nose Wiggling • The nose wiggle, made popular in the 1960s
by the television show Bewitched, is a pretty tough thing to do, actually.
• You can learn to do it with some practice, but it doesn’t come naturally for most people.
• However, when Nicole Kidman took the leading role for the Bewitched remake movie, she reportedly
needed no special training or practice at all.
11 – Sneezing with your Eyes Open • We’re not exactly sure why it’s impossible
to sneeze while keeping your eyes open.
But it totally is.
• Biologists suspect it might be a physical reaction to help keep your eyes protected
from all the crap coming out of your nose.
The sneeze activates the same set of nerves in your nose and eyes.
• There are, however, a few people who can keep their eyes open while sneezing – and
no, your eyes won’t pop out of your head when you do it.
That’s an urban legend.
• 10 – Hear Perfect Pitch
• Perfect pitch is a gift shared by only one in 10 thousand people.
• This is the ability to identify a note just by hearing it, like if you heard a car
horn and knew it was honking in F sharp.
• Many more people have something called “relative pitch,” which is the ability
to identify a tone relative to other tones.
9 – Lifting your Ring Finger Alone • Put your hand down on a table.
Now fold your middle finger under your hand, like it’s the only finger you’re curling
into a fist.
• You should now be able to lift your index finger and your pinky finger, but not your
ring finger.
• This is because the two fingers on the end have separate tendons controlling them.
But most people have their middle and ring finger tendons connected, making it almost
impossible to move one without the other.
8 – Touching Your Chin or Nose with your Tongue
• It’s not all that complicated.
Most people just don’t have long enough tongues to reach the tip of the nose or the
chin.
• It’s about 10 percent of people who can do it overall.
But among people who suffer from Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, a genetic condition related to stretchy
skin and flexible joints, the percentage goes up to about 50 percent.
7 – Splits • If most of us attempted to do a total
180-degree leg-split right now, we’d probably end up unable to walk normally for a while.
• However, it’s actually possible for most people to do with training and practice.
• But just like it’s a bad idea to try lifting a car without any weight training,
you don’t just go into splits cold without working out your hip joints.
6 – Wiggling your Ears • Ear-wiggling is a weird thing that seems
linked to genetics, but then also… doesn’t?
• We don’t exactly know why some people can move their ears and some can’t, but
it’s definitely a diminishing trait.
• Recent studies have shown only about 15% percent of people can.
5 – Breathing and Swallowing • The processes in our bodies that process
breathing and swallowing are very closely related.
• They’re related in a neural sense, as in the same portion of the brain and nervous
system sort of oversees both of them.
• But also, many of the muscles in your throat pull double-duty working on both of
these processes.
And they can’t do them both at once, so you’re stuck choosing between breathing
and swallowing at any given time.
• But hey, don’t try to prove this one wrong, okay?
Bad things happen when you try to swallow when you should be breathing.
4 – Raising one Eyebrow • This isn’t quite as rare as some of
the items on this list – about one in four people can raise eyebrow without moving the
other one at all.
• This is not a genetic thing – people can train their muscles to coordinate well
enough to raise one eyebrow instead of both…
IF it’s so important to you that you’d sit around practicing it for months on end.
3 - Putting a Fist in Your Mouth • Not very many people can fit an entire
fist into their mouth once they reach adulthood, but there are exceptions – like actress
Mila Kunis.
• But this is actually tried out a lot more often by babies.
Usually while teething, babies will stick their whole hands in their mouths for no apparent
reason.
• Which kind of makes it weird, given how many people seem to put sexual connotations
on this.
2 – Licking Your Elbow • There are two things at work here.
• One, your tongue isn’t long enough to reach your elbow.
And two, your shoulder are arm aren’t flexible enough to bring your arm close enough to your
mouth.
• You’ve probably heard about this one before, but there are some people who actually
can pull this off.
Many of them are the same ones who can lick the tips of their noses.
• In fact, Adrianne Lewis has a tongue so long, she can lick her nose, chin, elbow,
and EYEBALL. 1 –Autofellatio
• That’s right, guys, it isn’t just a dream.
It’s real… albeit for only about one in every thousand people.
• It’s also not really safe.
It requires a great deal of flexibility, and a sufficiently long penis.
Even then there are considerable risks to your ribs.
• But it’s possible for a select few people, and has been since ancient times.
In fact, Ancient Egyptian texts talk about how the sun god Ra created two other gods,
Shu and Tefnut, via autofellatio, and that’s just one of several other references
to it.