Weird human tricks

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Things some people can do and some can't. My kids wonder why they can't move their eyebrows separately (like I can) but they do seem to be double jointed (I'm not). The older two can each form a U with the tips of their tongues, but the youngest can't.

I like this area of interest because a person's ability to raise just one eyebrow is just an interesting quirk, not a reflection upon them as a human being.

What other silly people things have you seen or been able to do (ear wiggling? I learned that one as an adult. Whistling?).

Dilate my pupils on will, better when i'm in a bright room.
Equalize the pressure inside the eardrum vs outside, without swallowing/moving the jaw etc. It's a nice thing to know for diving.
I can't move my ears very much, but i sometimes react like a cat on certain sounds and my ears move =P
I can only move one of my eyebrows separately.
Move my little toe separately from the others.
Wiggle my nostrils *lol*
Drag air up from, eh.. Well do some odd burps on will.
Twirl my tongue, but only clock wise, not ccw.
Can whistle.

As for seen, you know the lady who manages to push her eyeballs out? Ai aiai..

My brother can do weird things with his tongue, like flattening it so it rests on his teeth like a pancake, or making it swell up and pulsate like he's got a heart in his mouth.

Wiggle my thumb, where the joint begins on the hand, it can like go from 0 to -2, -2 to 0.

I can wiggle my nose just like a bunny? Pick things up off the floor easily with my toes? (Is that even weird?) I can move my eyebrows separately. It's easy for me.

What I can't do: Roll my tongue. Apparently there's a gene associated with that and I don't have it. Oh well.

The weirdest thing is probably that I can change the color of my eyes, ranging from blue through grey to green.

Getting them bright green is the easiest of the choices.

I read someone else say burping. Well, yeah, I can do that at will too now. Turns out if you press on certain accupuncture points that's what happens. I don't have much call for that, especially in public.

I can make my nostrils move

Oooh, I want to be able to change my eye color at will! The closest I've come is back when I was a teenager, when my sister told me that when I get really ticked off my eyes turn black. Right now, they're hazel, so I think maybe I'm such a terrifying creature when angered that her own trembling fear made her black out in dismay. That's the theory I'm sticking with for now, anyhow.

I forgot to mention, my daughter can move her eyes separately and twist her legs into all sorts of peculiar pretzel knots.

I can point one eye inwards while the other keeps looking straight ahead (I can do this with both eyes). I'm working on extending this trick further so I can move both independently.

i can flare one or both nostrils
i can flap one or both ears
i can retract my uvula on command
i can shoot [poorly] right or left handed, long gun or pistol
i can make the vulcan peace sign with either hand
i can yodel a bit, somewhat hoarsly like leon redbone
i have some capacity for esophogeal speech
i'm very good at flooding toilets without even trying
i can play badminton with myself
i can polish a bayonet with either hand [but strangely enough must use my left hand to wipe it off afterwards]
i have perfect pitch which is a bit worse for the wear and years, now roughly 1.5 chromatic tones off-key sans cognitive override [so now it is no longer technically "perfect"]- but i can still tune guitars, basses and tympani sans pitch pipe.
sorta like in the old novelty song, i was my own grandma [long mystical story]