Amazing ability of some people

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Amazing ability of some people

If you ever ever take persistent attempts to raise an eyebrow, leaving the other fixed, you are not alone. The study, led by Chris Coady at the University of Sydney has shown that it is capable of at least 25 percent of the population. For unknown reasons, most of the lucky ones, endowed with such simple means to get attention - men.

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Only one-third of the people able to bend the thumb in the opposite direction of the hands. This phenomenon is called "finger hitchhiker" and is hereditary. In most cases, "hitchhiker finger" causes no pain and has no negative impact on the joint.

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Only 14 percent of Americans have absolute pitch, that is, the ability to play any musical note as desired. However, this ability is very helpful if you speak Mandarin. According to a study conducted by Professor Diana Deutsch, 60 percent of Chinese who speak Mandarin, have perfect pitch. According to the hypothesis Deutsch, this is due to the fact that the language of Mandarin tone plays a crucial role.

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About 8 percent of adults have extremely flexible foot, typical of chimpanzees.

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Some people are able to freely create a rattling sound in his own head, straining the jaw or ears. The fact that the mechanism of the ear has a small muscle tensor tympani, which is responsible for the stress of the tympanic membrane. It is usually busy so that dampens the sound, especially when chewing. So, some of us are endowed with the ability to manage it, creating the effect of screening, muffling out all other sounds. ***

Synesthesia - a phenomenon that is the person's ability to hear colors and taste the sounds. Most people in positions of synaesthesia - a woman or a left-hander. This is a very rare property that is found in only one person per two thousand.

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According to rough estimates of scientists, about 5 percent of the world's population has never experienced a headache.

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Some people are able to remember everything so clearly, as if it were yesterday. For example, if they have a date, they can tell you in great detail, where they were that day and what they were doing. This phenomenon is called Hyperthymesia or syndrome ultraprecise biographical memory. The entire planet is only about 60 people who have fixed Hyperthymesia.

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According to studies, only 1 percent of the world's population - ambidekstery or "dvupravorukie", ie people who are equally well versed in both hands.

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Some people feel the taste of soap, when chewed green coriander or cilantro. As part of this plant have a chemical that is a byproduct of soap manufacturing, but only 4 to 14 percent of people have genes that are able to detect it. However, there is nothing to envy.

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Approximately one in five of us is endowed with the ability to move his ears. It is interesting that about 22 per cent can only move your ears alone, and 18 percent - the two together. To do this, they use the weak rudimentary muscles inherited from common ancestors of prehistoric felines and primates, animals that have moved their ears in the same way as do cats.

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Children small nationalities Moken living mainly in Thailand - the only people on earth, endowed with the ability to see underwater without distortion, as well as on land. Scientists say that any child can learn to see under water (adults it is no longer able to), but the problem is that if the children do not belong to ethnic Moken, try to do it in the ocean, salt quickly corrode the mucous membrane of the eyes and they are inflamed. ***

Children Moken tribe, which, by the way, the neighbors called "sea gypsies", can dive to ten times a day, without causing any harm to the eyes. It is interesting that scientists still have not managed to find out the reasons behind this amazing phenomenon.

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Rolling his eyes, some people can hear the friction of the surface of the eyeball muscles in their sockets. This is a rare phenomenon in medicine syndrome baring the name of the front semicircular canal.

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When people involuntarily intertwine fingers, they almost always give preference to one of them, placing it on top of another. Only 1 percent of people have no such preference.

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hearing loss syndrome with a reverse bias - a hereditary human inability to hear low frequency sounds. Some people lead a normal life, without even knowing that they have the syndrome. Maybe they just do not hear the thunder during lightning storms or monotonous hum of the refrigerator.

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Some people can minimize their own language in the form of a cloverleaf. Of course, this ability occurs very rarely. Her two studies have been devoted. One of them found that among 163 American students 11 were endowed with such a property (6, 7 percent), and others have shown that out of 429 students of both sexes in China was not a single "lucky".

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Of course, Fido can easily get to the language of his nose, but did you know that only 8-10 percent of people are able to do this? This phenomenon even has a name - Gorlin sign.

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Covered by the so-called "goose bumps" when listening to music or feeling cold - normal and people almost always occurs spontaneously. But researcher James Hizers found at least 200 people that are able to cause this effect at any time on their own. ***

From 18 to 35 percent of the people - the owners of questionable "gift" photic sneeze reflex. This means that they are unable to keep from sneezing, looking at a bright light source.

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In 1948 biologist Alfred Kinsey researched adult men who were trying to carry out "AUTOFELLATIO", that is, caressing your own penis language. Kinsey found that only 0, 2-0, 3 per cent of men are able to achieve such a goal, and that the majority of men have tried with varying degrees of success, to do so as a teenager. Incidentally, this game is common among other primates, such as macaques and chimpanzees.

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About 12 percent of women are able to see 99 million shades of color, significantly more than the average man. Usually people come in three types of cone cells of the retina, but some women have found a rare genetic mutation, due to which they have an additional, fourth cone. This allows them to see an incredible variety of colors.