Wildly Unique Things That People Have

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Eric Lund
Aug 20, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

There's so goddamn many people that sometimes it feels impossible to stand out. Our jobs can make us feel like a faceless cog in the machine of life. Sitting in traffic makes us feel like an orderly part of the rabble only identifiable by a license plate number and propensity to take curves too fast. But we all have unique experiences, stories and things that remind us that life isn't just a grid system occupied by our own dwindling flesh. We're all unique, down to the unique sayings we have and dumbass memorabilia that we care about.

The fact remains that things matter because we care about them. So if you have some unique item or skill that gives your life meaning, it doesn't really matter what anybody else thinks about it. Hell, those people probably care about things that you would never consider mattering either. And honestly, it probably wouldn't work out any other way.

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    Human body - Kondorie - 16h An oil lamp from ancient Rome which is about 2000 years old. It's in pretty good condition and would probably still work today.
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    Font - linjaz · 20h - edited 3h S 2 My dad saved the very button that the King of Sweden pushed to engage a new production line in the factory he worked in. The factory were shut down a few years later and dad took the opportunity to bring the button with him on his last days of work. Edit: Haha, the King didn't work in the factory. It was as an opening ceremony for the production line. The wood industry is huge in Sweden so it was a kinda big deal for the economy and so on and so on.
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    Smile - JimTheJerseyGuy - 20h 2 3 A key to unlock the B6 level on an elevator in the World Trade Center along with a matching Port Authority issued ID card.
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    Font - jaimearistea - 22h · edited 16h G I have a dimple in my thigh from when my mother had an amniocentesis when she was pregnant with me and they hit me with the needle. It's a scar from before birth. Edit: my highest rated comment and turns out it's not uncommon at all. Mission failed successfully.
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    Smile - Mackheath1 · 21h 2 S 2 I'm sure other people have it, but not many people have both. I inherited a real Apollo 11 patch (that went to the moon) from my grandfather who worked on the mission and my aunt gave me a Mercury Astronaut test helmet worn by Alan Shepard.
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    Font - Casper_Arg - 22h · edited 16h & 2 3 2 800-day streak in Duolingo Edit: The streak is actually 794, I suppose you will pardon the round up. I know about streak freezes, but I haven't used more than 4 or 5 of them. The ones that protect your streak for the whole weekend, I've never used those. Language: I went through Japanese, German and Italian, and I've been focusing only on Italian for the last year and a half. I'm a spanish speaker. Did I learn?: Well, as much as you could expect from
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    Human body - Scallywagstv2 - 22h 2 3 2 Mint condition Nirvana ticket for a concert they never played due to Kurt Cobain's death. (April 94, Manchester G-Mex).
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    Font - BankerBabe420 · 22h 55 3 2 I have a tiny school book from the 1800s and the covers are filled with the writings of a little girl. I'm trying to track down her descendants to give them this book, because I don't like having something so valuable and irreplaceable in my possession, but there is no other little book like it. It is a history book and many of the entries would now be considered racist, especially toward Native Americans, and also this little girl, and likely her children and g
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    Font - Badfish1060 - 22h A piece of a turbine from a crashed Airbus A300.
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    Font - alicat9713 · 15h O 2 @2 3 3 & 2 More My grandfather was on the USS Indianapolis during WWII and was transferred off of it before they delivered the bombs and it sank ... he happened to take a book from the ship's library and never returned it. I inherited all of his books and happened to stumble across it while going through them... it's stamped with the ship's library stamp. So unless any other sailor took a book from the library of the USS Indianapolis before it sank and then held onto
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    Font - FromMyInternetDevice · 17h A "Contra" NES cartridge autographed by Billy Dee Williams
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    Rectangle - hotarume · 14h - edited 6h S 2 The master recording of the Phantom of the Opera (or, part of it, anyway). My dad was the recording engineer so he had the tape from when they made an album of the show with the original cast.
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    Font - DesireOfTheEndless · 19h - edited 17h S Worlds longest spinning fidget spinner. My father works for a ball bearing company. They developed the worlds longest spinning fidget spinner for the Guinness Book of World Records as a PR piece. He got to keep the spinner after the trials and it now sits at my desk at home.
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    Smile - TapoutKing666 · 16h 2 & 8 More B-(A) blood type. A is for anomalous. I can't give or receive. Born with hemophilia but developed platelets around age 3. My blood has been used to develop treatments and pharmaceuticals.
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    Rectangle - 8Bit_Innovations · 20h · edited 11h 2 A 1st gen iPod prototype from 2001 with hand- soldered components
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    Font - alancake · 15h A human atlas bone from the site of a medieval prison. 25yrs ago my then bf was working as the lowest ranked barrow pusher on a building site. Foreman knew that ancient bones may turn up and knew he was supposed to send for the archaeologists if so. Bones turned up, foreman said f.-k that, we're filling in, not getting behind schedule for some old shitty prisoner bones. BF tried to say something but would have been fired if he pushed it. He was pretty horrified but couldn't
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    Smile - retrolleum · 21h e A birthmark on my chest the exact size and placement of a pair of dog tags. I did serve too.
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    Gesture - LensPro · 18h My great great Grandfathers 1923 retirement watch. A Howard, never used still in the original case.
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    Font - Emotional_Ad_5026 · 20h A piece of the wreckage from the day the music died
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    Font - PutneySwope022 - 18h I have tickets to some MLB playoff games that never happened. My Grandmother worked for Ticket-Tron back when that was a thing. She left behind a bunch of memorabilia. Some used tickets to events and such. Ticket-Tron handled all the Mets affairs back then, too. So, we would always get tickets to games. In all of the things left behind are two different bundles of three tickets each for The Mets 1985 playoff games. Only, the Mets didn't make the Playoffs in 1985. I am
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    Human body - MNJayW - 17h I tweeted to William Shattner while waiting for my daughter to be born. He replied. I then printed the screenshot and had him autograph it.
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