15 Unique Body Features That Only 5% of People Have

we are all unique but some of us are more unique than others there are some people whose bodies are unique in ways you may not know were possible these are unique body features that only five percent of people have [Music] number 15 gary turner in october 1999 gary turner received a guinness world record for having the stretchiest skin i’m sure he probably wanted a title for something a little bit more exciting like maybe for being the world’s fastest runner or having the most money but these were the cards he was dealt gary can stretch his stomach’s skin outward by 6.25 inches because he has a rare medical condition known as ehlers-danlos syndrome this condition affects the connective tissues of his skin ligaments and internal organs people usually ask me can i do it all over my body basically the elasticity component collagen is defective this condition can cause hypermobility of the joints skin loosening and in severe cases fatal rupturing and collapse of blood vessels gary is known since he was a small child that his skin was different in fact his uncles used to love showing off how stretchy their nephew’s skin was to their friends [Applause] the stretchiest parts of his body are his neck tummy and arms he said the skin stretching doesn’t hurt but the other symptoms of his condition like joint pain do there is no cure for the condition so at least he’s got the consolation prize of a guinness world record like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or this centipede will crawl on your face when you’re sleeping now it’s time for the odd topic most people have a set of teeth at the top and a set of teeth at the bottom but as you can see in these two rather horrifying photos it’s actually possible to have many more teeth than that we’ve made videos before that have told the terrifying tales of people born with too many teeth but right here we have photographic evidence of what it can look like a very small percentage of people have this unique body feature but those who do must be really good at chewing comment down below with the hashtag oddtopic and let us know your opinion in relation to what we just showed on screen with that said let’s keep things moving number 14 jason rodriguez hernandez have you ever struggled to find shoes that fit your feet maybe your feet are really narrow or really wide or you just can’t seem to find that perfect pair you like those are small problems compared to what jason rodriguez hernandez battles daily he has the most enormous feat on a living person and has the guinness world record to prove it jason has a 40.55 centimeter or one foot 3.96 inch right foot and a 40.47 centimeter or one foot 3.93 inch left foot in june 2018 when he was approved for the guinness world record he lived in madakai venezuela with his loved ones and had to have shoes specially made for him in germany having the title of the world’s largest feat actually came of no surprise to jason he knew even at the age of 10 that he was probably facing such a title in his future even at that age they were unusually large he struggled to find shoes that would fit and even had to wear sandals made of fabric and old tires to get to school and appointments fortunately for him german shoemaker george vessels has been making new shoes with special material just for jason since 2011. number 13. eventra suthar devendra suthar from gujarat western india holds the guinness world record for having the most digits he has 28 fingers and toes with seven on each hand and foot this condition is known as polydactyly and it occurs when extra digits form in the womb during the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy while most people in developed countries with this condition have the extra digits removed devendra has been unable to afford the surgery just yet though he’s hoping that one day he can get it as those extra fingers and toes have made his life exceptionally challenging he finds walking uncomfortable because his extra wide feet rub on whatever footwear he’s wearing he can never find footwear wide enough to be comfortable devendra is also a carpenter so he’s constantly having to avoid chopping off those extra fingers himself while working with carpentry tools there is a genetic link with this condition but none of devendra’s immediate family has it even though some people have been born with a more severe form of this condition like oxshot saxon who had ten toes on each foot and seven fingers on each hand devendra still holds the world record and all because he’s not in a fortunate enough position to get surgery number 12. mattias schlitt it can sometimes be hard to use a medical condition to your advantage unfortunately in many cases it’s a setback such as having feet too large for regular shoes but that wasn’t the case for mattias schlitt he made sure he could live an ordinary life and use his unique body feature to his advantage mattias was born with a rare genetic defect his right forearm bone was 33 percent larger than his left many people would probably hide their arms away under long-sleeved shirts so no one had to find out but he made sure his arms shone he decided to get involved in arm wrestling and it paid off he is now a professional arm wrestler and a german and international champion in the sport matthias quickly made a name for himself even after he was initially mocked for getting involved in the sport now people call him hellboy in good humor and he is both a commercial star and media wonder you may have even seen him on an episode of discovery channels is it possible show number 11. jeff dave when you see the size of jeff dabe’s forearms and hands you probably think he has a condition like elephantiasis or gigantism as it turns out jeff was just born with massive 49 centimeter circumference forearms and hands that can fit a basketball in each there isn’t any medical reason for the most part jeff lives a normal life but he has used his incredible arm and hand size to his advantage the minnesota born man started competing in arm wrestling tournaments in the 1980s as you can imagine his huge hands gave him an incredible advantage i can maybe be a little bigger than andre again some things since he was such a huge even as far back as high school his arm wrestling skills were well known people used to call him popeye after popping out his right arm during a 1986 competition he stopped competing but that wasn’t the end of his career when josh handland an arm wrestling champion from minnesota came to his town he decided to start competing again using his left arm this led him to become the state champion and he now competes on the world arm wrestling league circuit he enjoys getting to travel across the united states with his wife and meet people from around the world and all because he has a unique body feature that very few people have number 10 got i’m gay when jiyoti amgay was born in 1993 in central india nothing seemed to be a mess she hit all her milestones and was a joyful loving child but by the time she turned five years old her mother ranjana knew something wasn’t right she stopped growing it turns out that giotti has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia she will never grow past a certain height still she never let that hold her back chiyoti gained the title of the shortest living teenager at two feet tall and only weighed nine pounds more than her birth weight that time in the spotlight when she was measured on tv gave her big dreams of becoming an actress in 2009 she appeared in a music video then on the tv show body shock in the episode two foot tall teen by the time she was 18 geode had taken the title of the shortest living woman and was thrown back into the spotlight once more but she wanted more than just documentaries about her height she appeared as a guest on big brother then became ma petite on the fourth season of american horror story a hit us tv series number nine sultan kosen ask any short person and they’ll tell you how frustrating it is not to be able to reach top cupboards change light bulbs or do anything at great heights i’ll tell you who doesn’t have this problem and it’s sultan cosin sultan was born in 1982 and by all accounts was normal however by the time he was 10 years old it became clear something wasn’t quite right he had an incredible growth spurt that just didn’t seem to end sultan was subsequently diagnosed with pituitary gigantism which is caused by an overproduction of growth hormone everyone has growth hormone which is released by the brain’s pituitary gland sometimes when that gland is damaged such as from a tumor it causes too much or not enough hormone to be released the result of this is bone thickening large hands and painful joints in 2009 sultan was named the first man to be over eight feet tall and was measured by the guinness world records when the title of world’s tallest living man was confirmed sultan stood at eight feet one inch tall though when he was measured again just two years later he had already grown to eight feet 2.8 inches tall number eight adrian lewis your elbow towards your face and try to lick it it’s impossible right our tongues are just not capable of reaching that far and you can’t pull your elbow in close enough well someone clearly forgot to tell adrian lewis that it is impossible because she can do it the twin lake resident has the longest tongue measuring four inches long learned how to do some really cool tricks with my tongue like touching my nose as you can imagine she can do a lot of things with her tongue than most people can like touch her elbow her nose and her chin if she uses her finger for extra reach she can even touch her eyeball adrian’s crazy long tongue was thrust into the spotlight after ripley’s believe it or not compiled a book of freaky fantastic and fun stories she contacted the company to tell them of her tongue and her story took off from there but adrian isn’t the only one with a tongue-related story byron and emily schlinker father and daughter have records of the world’s widest tongues byron’s tongue measures 8.6 centimeters across while emily’s is 7.3 centimeters number seven isaac johnson in 2019 a 15 year old from bloomington stole headlines for a very unique reason he had a particular body feature that wasn’t exactly common isaac johnson had just received the title of having the world’s largest gate i began realizing that i had a that i could have against world records that meant he could open his mouth further than anyone else in the world at least that we know of now if you’re wondering how wide that could really be then let us tell you 3.67 inches or 9.34 centimeters the previous title was 8.8 centimeters held by a german man with relative ease isaac can put oranges baseballs and even the bottom of a water bottle in his mouth you could just imagine how much his dentists love him after his title was confirmed isaac shot to fame the washburn high school student was even contacted by jimmy kimmel live he also hoped to enter a competition to see how many marshmallows he could stuff in his mouth currently a new zealand woman holds that title she managed to stuff a whopping 44 marshmallows in her mouth back in 2012 there’s probably no doubt that isaac could fit a few more number 6. evan hill most people’s jaws sit at around a 2 degree angle 12 year old evan hill from new zealand has a jaw that sits at 12 degrees his buck teeth were so severe that they even impacted his ability to speak he was bullied too and couldn’t close his mouth one orthodontist was so shocked by evan’s x-rays that he said they were the worst he had seen in 25 years as you can imagine the buck teeth really are that bad they call me a bunny robin i’m not just to fix them was going to cost his family twelve thousand dollars or a little over eight thousand five hundred us dollars new zealanders are pretty friendly generous people when evan’s plate was shown on a tv show called campbell life kiwis stepped up they not only raised the twelve thousand dollars necessary to have his corrective treatment but ninety nine thousand dollars in total the leftover funds were put into a trust for families in similar circumstances in new zealand dental care is free for children under 18. however it tends to cover small things like checkups cavities fillings and necessary treatment evan didn’t qualify and his family couldn’t afford to get them fixed themselves with the money in hand evan went on to receive five years of monthly orthodontist visits to shift his teeth 15 millimeters he now has a confident healthy and normal smile number five foo angley was an average teenage boy from china but he was living anything but an average teenage boy life fu was diagnosed with congenital scoliosis as a child along with an abnormal chest frame so instead of having the seven vertebrae that most people have foo has ten his neck grew three inches longer than it should have and he struggles to walk while also suffering from a lot of pain foo’s condition congenital scoliosis developed when foo was in the womb it caused the bones in his spine to grow abnormally the vertebrae also press on his neck nerves which make it challenging for him to walk this along with the stairs that people give him in public mean foo doesn’t like to go out too much when foo’s story became known a charity in beijing stepped up they decided to finance treatment and a procedure that would ease his discomfort and reduce the length of his neck it’s unknown whether the now 20 year old has received surgery but it surely can’t be all that far away if it hasn’t happened yet number four selman siblings it’s relatively uncommon for people to be born with heterochromia which is a condition that causes you to have two different colored eyes it’s caused by many different things like genetics genetic mutations accidents diseases and birth trauma even though all these things can cause it you don’t see too many people with it suat and ezra selman from turkey were shocked when their first son mamet had the condition displaying as one brown eye and one blue eye but they were doubly shocked when later his brother karem was born with the very same condition he too had one brown eye and one blue eye both boys can see perfectly fine because it’s the pigment melanin that determines what colors your eyes will be then when they were young they quite liked all the attention people would give them about their eyes however their parents say that as they got older they would try and close their eyes in public to stop people from looking at them ezra said she felt quite lucky to have special boys like karem and mimet number 3 backward handshake internet users were close to vomiting in 2017 when they watched a strange video uploaded to the internet the clip showed a man shaking the left hand of his friend only to contort his joints and use the same hand to shake his friend’s right hand since the video was uploaded it had amassed hundreds of thousands of views and for good reason this unique body feature isn’t exactly typical it’s called hyper mobile joints and around one in five people in the uk have it although not always to the same degree as this guy hyper hypermobile joints give some people a massive range of motion more than you would consider being normal they can move their limbs into unique positions and people also call it loose joints or being double jointed it’s quite common in young people and children and it’s thought to be hereditary though collagen may also play a part in that flexibility but giving something a medical name or explanation doesn’t make it any less terrifying to watch people commented on the video saying things like you stopped that you stopped that right now i’m with that guy i can’t watch it anymore number two double and triple joints just when i thought the human body couldn’t get any stranger it goes ahead and does honestly just stop people are born with average joint mobility and flexibility and no one blinks an eye but then some people are born with such flexibility that you could probably say they have double or triple joints a quick search on youtube and you’ll get a glimpse of what that actually looks like one girl can basically flip her hand inside out so if she went to grab a drink she could do it with her fingers facing backward or forward another can show off her palm as if it were the top of the hand it’s so strange that one guy commented it’s basically a halloween costume what you got oh [ __ ] that’s a halloween costume join hyper mobility or double and triple joints as it gets called tends to affect younger people although it can continue into later life some people find that if they continue being able to flex their joints in strange ways they suffer from joint pain and stiffness later in life a small price to pay for a neat party trick though right number 1. vents the white-haired baby around 5 in 100 000 babies are born with albinism which is a congenital disorder resulting from a lack of the melanin pigment people with albinism often have white hair and suffer from light sensitivity and sometimes vision problems or complete blindness when babies with albinism are born it’s relatively easy to tell they have the condition there are other telltale signs besides white hair however bence was born in hungary with a full head of white hair but no other signs of albinism his vitals all showed he was a healthy baby but doctors did wonder whether he had albinism they tested his blood and melanin levels and found that his levels were low so they may have contributed to his hair color but his skin pigmentation was just fine doctors then wondered whether stress in the womb may have caused the hair color and if over time his melanin levels would increase there are still a lot of question marks over benz’s situation so time will tell although other parents of babies born with white hair said their hair color changed slightly as they got older after learning about all these unique body features i’d be interested to know whether you discovered any of your own do you have something that you don’t think anyone else has like personally i can wiggle my ears i’ve met maybe two other people in my life that can do the same do you have any of your own tell us about it in the comments also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time you