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17 People Who Proudly Shared Their Fascinating Body Abnormalities Like Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome And Supernumerary Teeth

Today I learned that humans can actually grow back amputated finger tips, and my mind is blown.

In case no one ever taught you, this is a reminder that everyone's body is unique and different. In fact, some people have bodies that are SO unique and different that they just really wanted to share them with the world. And this is where r/mildlyinteresting comes in! It's one of the best places to find people sharing their interesting body abnormalities. And here are some of the top-voted ones as of late:

1. Like this person who accidentally chopped off the tip of their finger as a child, and saw it grow back slightly larger. (Yes, amputated fingers tips can actually grow back sometimes!!! On children, anyway.)

arrow pointing to the growth on the finger

2. This person who has a rare disorder called Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome, which has resulted in them having three pupils in their left eye.

closeup of the 3 pupils

3. This person who wanted to show their "Marfan's syndrome hands," a symptom of the inherited disorder that affects connective tissue.

hand with very long fingers

4. This person who has seven wisdom teeth and, oof, had ALL of them extracted in a four-hour-long procedure. Most people have four wisdom teeth (one in each corner), for reference.

x-ray with circles around all the teeth

5. This person who has a permanently dilated pupil, which is a condition also known as mydriasis — it can be caused by many different factors including injury (as in this case).

arrow pointing to the dilated pupil

6. This person, whose hands are showing signs of Raynaud's Phenomenon, which causes decreased blood flow to the fingers.

finger tips white while the rest of the hand is red

7. And this person, who knows they have Raynaud's, and wanted to share what it looks like when their fingers turn "deathly" pale.

pale fingers

8. This person who has "too many bones" in their mouth, which is actually a case of mandibular tori, referring to a bony growth on the bottom of your mouth, under your tongue.

closeup of the person's mouth

9. This person who actually lost the first joint crease on their ring finger after having it in a splint for seven weeks...which might cause some pain in physical therapy.

finger with no crease

10. This person who has two different colors in BOTH their eyes (a form of heterochromia).

closeup of their eyes

11. This person who can bend their toes all the way back to their foot and miiiiight have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disorder that affects your connective tissues, primarily the skin, joints, and blood vessel walls.

person bending their toes backwards

12. This person's baby who was born with an "extra" finger.

baby hand with an extra circular tissue attached

13. And this adult who was also born with an "extra" finger (or fingers, in this case), and now has "nubs" in their place and, believe it or not, experienced phantom itching!

closeup of their hands with two bumps where the fingers were

14. This person who has a hereditary condition where none of their fingers (or toes) have middle knuckles.

no middle knuckles on a hand

15. This person who found out they actually have some extra teeth after going in for a dentist appointment to complain about pain.

x-ray with circles around the extra teeth

16. This person who has veins in the very perfect shape of a heart on their bicep.

circle around the heart-shaped vein

17. And finally, this person whose hands are a different size, shape, and even color from each other.

person with two different hands