Category: Body Quirks

Some people do not catch yawns because susceptibility to contagious yawning is a personal trait that varies a lot and stays remarkably stable over time. Age explains a small part …

Every so often you meet someone with one blue eye and one brown eye, or a ring of gold sitting inside an otherwise green iris, and it’s hard not to …

You finally lie down, ready to sleep, and that’s exactly when your legs decide they have other plans. A crawling, tingling, hard-to-describe urge to move sets in, and the second …

You knock your knee on a coffee table, barely feel it, and forget about it entirely, until a purple-blue mark shows up the next morning that lasts a full week. …

A cleft chin has a reputation as one of those classic “strong jawline” features you see on actors and models, but it’s really just a small quirk of how your …

Somewhere between “huh, weird” and “wait, that’s actually a thing?” sits one of the more surprising genetic quirks out there: the third nipple. It sounds like a punchline or a …

Some people step into the sun for an afternoon and come back with a light dusting of freckles across their nose. Others seem to be covered in them, scattered across …

A widow’s peak, the distinctive V-shaped point where your hairline dips down in the center of your forehead, is one of those features that’s instantly recognizable, made even more famous …

Someone in every friend group can bend their thumb back until it touches their forearm, or straighten their elbows a little past where everyone else’s stop, and it never fails …

For most people, the sound of someone chewing gum or clicking a pen is mildly annoying at worst, the kind of thing you notice for a second and then tune …