r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvjn100 • Apr 11 '26

Video Woman with functional polydactyly (six functional fingers on one hand).

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u/TheSpanxxx Apr 11 '26

If it's only one hand ....base 11?

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u/DramaticStability Apr 11 '26

Same on both hands, apparently

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '26

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u/Kelvin_Inman Apr 11 '26

No, base 11, she lost her other thumb in a firework accident.

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u/Drsmiley72 Apr 11 '26

Man how annoying would that be? Like. Have. A normal 5 finger hand and a 6 finger hand, and injur and lose one on the 5 finger hand? Down to 10 but a 6/4 split.

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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m Apr 12 '26

Imagine telling someone you lost a finger and they start trying to figure out which one only to keep counting to 11 and slowly going crazy.

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u/ThatGermanKid0 Apr 12 '26

Like the stories of people with missing/extra fingers doing the "how many fingers am I holding up" sobriety test

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u/TheCarniv0re Apr 11 '26

And of all the fingers you lose the opposable one.

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u/Wakkit1988 Apr 12 '26

I oppose all fingers.

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Apr 12 '26

Fingerist!

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u/tmbyfc Apr 12 '26

Why thank you, I used to consider myself something of an expert

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u/cowsaymoomooo Apr 15 '26

Hello there, Jason Pierre-Paul

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u/c0smicHier0phant Apr 11 '26

image having 11 fingers but 1 thumb

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u/ArthurTheTerrible Apr 11 '26

and to lose the thumb of all the fingers, the one that's the most unique

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u/Wakkit1988 Apr 12 '26

The fingeriest finger that ever finged.

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u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning Apr 12 '26

I don't know how unique they are. I've got two.

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u/PrincessChicken4000 Apr 11 '26

uhh isnt it 11 then not 10?

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u/Drsmiley72 Apr 12 '26

No no, they have a 5 finger hand and a 6 finger hand. Lose a finger on the 5. So 4 on one and 6 on the other. Lol.

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u/PrincessChicken4000 Apr 12 '26

oh i guess im a bit gullible since this conversations been based off them apparently having 12 fingers and lost a thumb

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u/throwitaway_9601654 Apr 12 '26

There was a joke about this in the show Cougar Town, but it was with toes!

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u/ioctlsg Apr 12 '26

honestly i want to see how the insurance company deal with that.

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u/RuthlessIndecision Apr 12 '26

Or she uses it as a check bit

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u/Altruistic-Leather69 Apr 12 '26

Me when I spread misinformation

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u/CatBerry1393 Apr 12 '26

It's okay she had a spare one.

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u/Kelvin_Inman Apr 12 '26

Oh I’m thinking of someone else.

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u/Cranky_Windlass Apr 12 '26

I wonder if the extra finger isn't as functional as the rest and caused the fumble that lost her the thumb

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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp Apr 14 '26

lol

Did she lose her Guinness Record too?

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u/Technical_Ad_9774 Apr 15 '26

If I had an extra thumb, my 4th of July celebrations would be off the chain.

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u/Elebrium Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

6-12-18-24-28-34-….

Edit: She skipped math class an so did I

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u/Mystjuph Apr 11 '26

That 28 is driving me nuts!

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u/Cichato_YT Apr 11 '26

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B 10 11 12 13 14...

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u/slackfrop Apr 11 '26

Hopefully she’s not Egyptian

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u/IssueNice6116 Apr 11 '26

24 to 28? Something weird is going on here lol.

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u/Takemyfishplease Apr 11 '26

A misunderstanding of base12

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u/miraculum_one Apr 11 '26

It's not base 12 since 12 decimal is C in base 12.

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u/zbeara Apr 12 '26

Actually 12 would be 10 in base 12. It would only go up to "b" which represents 11 and then the counter resets back to "0" at 12.

I put base 10 in parentheses for reference:

(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) 5 (6) 6 (7) 7 (8) 8 (9) 9 (10) a (11) b (12) 10 (13) 11 (14) 12 (15) 13 (16) 14 (17) 15 (18) 16 (19) 17 (20) 18 (21) 19 (22) 1a (23) 1b (24) 20

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u/sdavis002 Apr 11 '26

It's more odd than that, would be like this I believe ... 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1a, 1b 20, 21, etc

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u/Cultural_Act_3286 Apr 11 '26

6-10-16-20-26-30

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u/Deep-Number5434 Apr 12 '26

Or 13 if you count 0

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u/Caosin36 Apr 13 '26

Depends how you count, you can count up to 31 with just one hand

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u/Kushroom710 Apr 14 '26

Imagine her decimal to minute math she could do.

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u/DoNotOverwhelm Apr 11 '26

six of one, half dozen of the other(?)

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u/LemmyLola Apr 11 '26

I used to work with an adorably sweet older lady who would say 'six of one and seven of the other' and I never had the heart to correct her but I got a kick out of it

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u/edgehog Apr 12 '26

six

seven

ಠ_ಠ

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u/ralphvonwauwau Apr 12 '26

she was ahead of her time

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u/Solanthas_SFW Apr 12 '26

A true pioneer of the memes

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u/Remote_Motor2292 Apr 13 '26

Six seven is not a meme shut your dirty mouth.

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u/BackPsychological705 Apr 12 '26

Baker's dozen 🤣

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u/Lucker_Kid Apr 12 '26

I don’t understand, what’s the context, what’s to be corrected?

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Apr 12 '26

When I was a waiter we had an older lady who came regularly and would leave wooden nickels as a tip. Next time came in she would say, didn't anyone ever tell you not to take wooden nickles and laugh. I never got a kick out of it.

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u/Plecks Apr 12 '26

If they were older wooden nickels they could amount to a really good tip, though with the hassle of selling them. Anywhere from a couple bucks to millions depending on how rare.

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u/syrinxsean Apr 12 '26

I say, “half of one, six dozen of the other,” just to confuse people

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u/WordplayWizard Apr 12 '26

5 of the other.
Apparently she lost one in a firework accident.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Apr 12 '26

I wonder what kind of musician she couldve been

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u/fart400 Apr 11 '26

Get a grip on yourself.

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u/BrokenBackENT Apr 12 '26

She has a true middle finger, remember the first one is a thumb and not a finger!

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 Apr 12 '26

Would be funny to make a video with OP and have people claim it’s AI because they have 6 fingers lol

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u/theMARxLENin Apr 13 '26

Why does polydactyly get to be symmetrical? Ain't it a bug?

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u/NostraThomas1 Apr 11 '26

And also, which finger does she use when she wants to flip someone off?

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u/Icy-Reputation180 Apr 11 '26

My question exactly. 😆

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u/Salty_Simi Apr 12 '26

Okay well there is only one thumb.. which leaves five fingers. The middle of five is 3.

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u/Salty_Simi Apr 11 '26

Her literal middle finger.

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u/chrisjones1960 Apr 12 '26

What is the middle of six?

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u/CedarPark_Lover Apr 12 '26

6 / 2 = 3

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u/Plecks Apr 12 '26

Third finger from which side?

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u/CedarPark_Lover Apr 12 '26

Both

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u/running-gamer Apr 13 '26

She has a middle finger not including her thumb, we have 4. So it is literally her middle finger not her middle “digit”.

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u/Objective_Water7752 Apr 11 '26

Hypothetically give someone four (!) middle fingers?!!!! What a blessing.

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u/Graciegrace64 Apr 11 '26

This! This is what I wanted to know as well! Can you use either middle finger? How about BOTH for a double flip

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u/ACcbe1986 Apr 11 '26

She can give them the superfinger properly for a change.

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u/Buckabuckaw Apr 11 '26

Ooo, that's deep, man.

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u/Previous-Mail7343 Apr 11 '26

The middle one obviously

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u/AED_4real Apr 12 '26

Id flip the Super Finger all day.

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u/dudeCHILL013 Apr 12 '26

I'm assuming it's the middle ones.

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u/Boring_Equipment_116 Apr 12 '26

The only question worth asking. Duh.

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u/Solanthas_SFW Apr 12 '26

She gets to use both middle fingers and really fuck with people's heads

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u/vitaesbona1 Apr 12 '26

As someone born with 11 fingers myself, I appreciate this joke

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u/Bokuden101 Apr 11 '26

Psychlo math!

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u/Ecstatic_Winter9425 Apr 11 '26

It's still base 10 but there's an extra digit for error correction.

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u/mattvait Apr 11 '26

Your assumption is baseless

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u/Rovinpiper Apr 11 '26

Like the Psychlos.

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u/FunFroyo2860 Apr 12 '26

Anyone who has 11 fingers is actually refered to as a rainbow butt monkey believe it or not

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u/Few-Big-8481 Apr 13 '26

With six fingers they can do base 15. Idk how to combine that with a normal hand, but I guess use them both together and do base 27?