Can fold my last finger phalanges (phalanx?), the distal ones I think they're called, absolutely useless superpower
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I can clap with one hand, but it's impossible to do without looking mentally challenged.
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I have an almost surreal intuition that scare people sometimes
If I've heard it once, I can recognize any voice even years later. The more I hear a voice the better, obviously. It'll drive me crazy until I look it up and confirm suspicions. On the rare occasion I get false positives from people who have similar pitch and patterns but overall I can identify an acquaintance, voice actor, celebrity, etc, across many different media even if they are playing different roles. I never forget a voice. I don't know why.
Perhaps related, I can do a fair number of accents and mimic famous character speech patterns. It's super silly.
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I apparently have a pretty good sense of smell. I used to distinguish beer/wine on scent alone.
Its mostly a curse, though.
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I can catch flies with my bare hand. I don't kill them though, just let them go from windows.
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I can make a really loud noise that sounds like a Nazgul from Lord of the Rings.
To do it you have to pull air into your lungs against the resistance of your vocal chords. With low power it sounds like an old man/woman dying but with high power it sounds like a hawk. It takes some training because if you try to force it will aggravate your vocal chords but with some practice you can make a yelling-volume noise that does not at all seem human.
Bonus Story: I was on the brewery tour for Yuengling in Pottsville, PA, USA. It's one of the oldest American breweries because it survived prohibition by using a small cave to shuttle beer out of the brewery. As part of the tour they take you through the unlit cave and the tour guide just going through the motions with the energy of Ben Stein doing preventative maintenance. In an effort to liven up the tour, when we got to the darkest parts I yelled, "Oh fuck, bats!!" and did the Nazgul shriek. The whole group ran out of the cave.
The tour guide was very annoyed and assured everyone there were no bats and bats don't sound like that anyway.