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Do you have six fingers (watch out for vengeful Spaniards) or more? Have you met someone famous? Are you able to do something weird and/or awesome that few people can claim to be able to? Did something happen to you that changed your life forever?

If so, post it here! Tell the Dakka community a weird/cool fun fact about yourself or something that happened to you.

To start, I happen to be related to the infamous Vlad the Impaler and my old house had to be exorcised because it was haunted (this happened when I was very young and left me with a phobia of the dark).

We've got lots of...interesting...people on Dakka, show us how...interesting...you really are!

I have a purple dress suit, three pieces.
(Seriously, I'll take a picture if you want)

My ancestors built a castle in Ireland, that is a tourist attraction now.

My father met Jimmy Dolittle on a PX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Doolittle

I met Frank frazetta when I was young. He was visiting his brother's shop, and he talked ot me for a few moments.

I've been inspired by Royce Gracie and Georges St. Pierre to train in MMA.

I am descended from a German Templar Knight.
I am Afraid of talking to people I like, yet i can talk to adults no problem.
I Have 10 weapons located in my household.
I am a freerunner.
I am part of a choir, I can sing well.
I collect eldar, and few other races.
I can cook .
I am so close to becoming an eagle scout i'm like pokeing it with a stick.
I am afraid of clowns, myself, and girls i like.
I LIKE PIE!
I met the guy who voice Mario, I have been on 2 news programs (in the background), I have met the team behind LOAT (life of a terran and I am part of it), I have met a few cast members from Transformers 3, and i have a bullet from it. I also have met the Mayor of Chicago, and the governor of IL. My Sister was suppose to sing at the Olympics with her class in Sydney Australia. I have been inside the Sydney opera house. I did met the Crocodile hunter... I sat down and talked to Jervis Johnson, I also talked to the guy who made the Rogal Dorn Figure. And I know a few other people, and I met the Director of Chemical 12d and his crew.
I saw the puppet version of the hobbit.
My name does not change in 10 different languages.
I can track.
I probably have had more items from hobbies than anyone in my entire class, I have 5,000 yugi'oh cards, and 350 marines, and 300 mage knights..... Yeah I was into mageknights alot.
I played Mage Knights for 5 years. And I am sadden by its destruction :(
I have the collectible Sypher the Sky Dragon in my room.
I had a rouge trader Dreadnought. (I lost it D: )
I have completely Memorized the Muppets Song.
I own a cannon ball from the battle of gettysburg.
My family history stretches back 500 years.
My Great Grandfather served as an american spy (Working for the americans) to fight the Germans in WW2. He was excuted for treason by Hitler's SS.

I met the voice of Space Ghost coast to Coast (he is a total dick) and ate lunch with Alfonso Ribeiro totally cool guy.

I used to be a GOD on Need for speed underground.
I seriously thought about trying for a world record for most bones popped (Imagine what you do to your knuckles, but on every part of my body and more then once)
I have an Epic beard.

KingCracker wrote:I met the voice of Space Ghost coast to Coast (he is a total dick) and ate lunch with Alfonso Ribeiro totally cool guy.

I used to be a GOD on Need for speed underground.
I seriously thought about trying for a world record for most bones popped (Imagine what you do to your knuckles, but on every part of my body and more then once)
I have an Epic beard.

Ahh man the guy who plays the Space Ghost is a dick? Damn.
I hope someone here has met jon stewart....
You were in need for speed D:. Oh my Emperor, i feel a sense of bowing before you *bows*

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:I met the voice of Space Ghost coast to Coast (he is a total dick) and ate lunch with Alfonso Ribeiro totally cool guy.

I used to be a GOD on Need for speed underground.
I seriously thought about trying for a world record for most bones popped (Imagine what you do to your knuckles, but on every part of my body and more then once)
I have an Epic beard.

Ahh man the guy who plays the Space Ghost is a dick? Damn.
I hope someone here has met jon stewart....
You were in need for speed D:. Oh my Emperor, i feel a sense of bowing before you *bows*

Oh yea big time. All I did was say, hey you guys are hilarious, whats your fav show? He rolled his eyes and in a total asshat tone "STYPE" and then just ignored me when I said stype? what show was stype. Later I realized he meant the one with Micheal Stype (am I spelling that right? You know the guy from REM) Total dick

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:I met the voice of Space Ghost coast to Coast (he is a total dick) and ate lunch with Alfonso Ribeiro totally cool guy.

I used to be a GOD on Need for speed underground.
I seriously thought about trying for a world record for most bones popped (Imagine what you do to your knuckles, but on every part of my body and more then once)
I have an Epic beard.

Ahh man the guy who plays the Space Ghost is a dick? Damn.
I hope someone here has met jon stewart....
You were in need for speed D:. Oh my Emperor, i feel a sense of bowing before you *bows*

Oh yea big time. All I did was say, hey you guys are hilarious, whats your fav show? He rolled his eyes and in a total asshat tone "STYPE" and then just ignored me when I said stype? what show was stype. Later I realized he meant the one with Micheal Stype (am I spelling that right? You know the guy from REM) Total dick

oh. Ok.

Darth Bob wrote:Do you have six fingers (watch out for vengeful Spaniards) or more?

Yup. Ten, counting my thumbs.

I rethought that one.

So...

I have a tattoo of Wolverine. Is that a fun fact? Also, like the OP, I once lived in a house that could have been objectively considered haunted and my Grandparents still do live there. Some weird gak went down there man. I wouldn't believe in haunted houses(or whatever phenomena we commonly refer to as hauntings) if I hadn't experienced some of that stuff.

I once met David Bowie in a restaurant. He was a nice guy.

Direct sunlight turns me into stone.

I am 3/4 Italian, 1/8 English, 1/16 Korean and 1/16 Russian.

My Great-Uncle once met the Pope.

I am a very boring person.

I am secretive.

I looked like my grandmother...

Every Tuesday I am a Viking. I spar in a ring with several others basically historical reenactment.

I am a Chef in training and I want to open up a pub someday.

I sing, play guitar and drum in my free time, I love animals and the Simpson's.

I am half Scottish half Norwegian.

-I'm a sixth generation Pakeha (white New Zealander), which is fairly uncommon.
-More of my immediate family is dead than alive.
-I own an actual, Japanese, folded-steel katana.
-I have, even in my own opinion, too much 40k lying around.
-I own four trench coats.
-And three pairs of black steel-capped boots.
-I was briefly engaged when I was 18 (ololol )
-I enjoy a quiet spliff in the evenings.
-I'm a decent scientific/graphic illustrator.
-I'm also quite the chef.
-Despite being male, I belong in the kitchen (see above).
-I have a massive Nerf arsenal.
-I quit high school at sixteen to get a fine art diploma instead.
-I can adequately perform black metal vocals, and am really rather excellent at death metal vocals.
-H.R. Giger is my hero.
-When I was 5, and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said "Godzilla".
-Apart for my height, I have nearly achieved that dream.

my great great great uncle was Richard Pearse who many people believe to have beaten the Wright brothers to the first controled flight. (although it is debated) http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html for more.

Im reading peter Jordans books right now. its pritty hard to read and write at the same time. im up to book 7.

I have met and talked to Wayne Coyn from The Flaming Lips. Super nice guy. They do a great show.

I have written a study on youth subculture and tribalism that was partially included in sociological textbooks.
I have kept and bred and helped ensure the future of several species of highly endangered Lake Victoria cichlids, some of which were even classified as extinct.
I have had dinner with John Hurt, Judy Dench and her late husband and daughter.
I have had coffee and biscuits with David Bowie and his wife Iman.
I have gone out drinking and clubbing with Thandie Newton.

Seen Alice Cooper.
Met Status Que drummer (nice guy)
Am desecended from Scandinavia.
Own a battle company.
Am hungover
too hungover to remember anything else cool.

In the last year I've met and shaken hands with our Deputy PM Nick Clegg, the Queen and Prince Philip.

On stranger note, during WW2 my grandfather served in the same unit as the man who stole the Jules Rimet Trophy during the 1966 world cup.

I once made David Bellamy (British Naturalist)move train carriages after bombarding him with silly questions.

In retrospect this brush with celebrity is not as cool as some of the above.

The drummer from The Smiths once told me I was a great drummer. Which was nice.

I can read a novel sized book in one sitting, speed reading, and can sometimes memorise entire pages at a glance.

Mr. Burning wrote:I can read a novel sized book in one sitting, speed reading, and can sometimes memorise entire pages at a glance.

That's you banned from 'browsing' codexes in GW then.

My ancestors built a castle in 925AD and the town around it still bears my family name and crest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilseck
My grandfather fought for the US was a POW in Germany during the end of WW2, and I am the first person in 100 years to break my family tradition of military service (since WW1).
Dark Eldar was the army I used to learn 40k, can't wait to start a new army of them.
I can't think of anything else

I am related to two former presidents Marten Vanburin and Grant.
Have 4 full companies of marines.
Collect Darth Vader figures and stuffed animals weird I know but there you are
Have white dwarf back to issue 53 missing some here or there

I've read the dictionary.
I can sing the entirety of Daftpunks 'technologic' song from memory.
My favourite animal is the Scorpion.
I have three mild phobias (Agro, Gyno, and...Coito).
I know Pi to thirty decimal places.
I have an obsession with cold custard.
My Families crest looks suspicously like a certain god of diseases'.
I have the same birthday as Henry VIII and the date of the Sarajevo assasination.
I have met and argued with Steve Redgrave.
I can drink poison like it's apple juice.
One of my Grandmothers has met the Queen.
I am blessed with near perfect recall.
I have, in the past, been stabbed.
I play the Drums.
I can stand right behind someone without them noticing indefinately.
I share my name with a country, a model, a fish, and an ex-formula 1 team.

I forgot to mention, I very nearly drowned when I was 3, and have a perfect memory of the event.

I was approximately 1 mile from the beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Hurricane Katrina made land fall.

I play bass guitar,and have been in over a dozen bands.

I am covered in tattoos.

I once dated an extra from the film "Drop Dead Fred" for several months.

I've been divorced alot.

I'm addicted to horror films.

I make my living working on "exotic" cars,but I hate to drive.

I have two children who may be possessed.

My greatest brush with fame was meeting Joey Ramone.

I have seen "Jaws" over a hundred times

- I was almost one year old, when me and my mom where waiting in a queue in front of the iceman (guy selling ice cream?), and there must have been a man behind us,
and he asked me what my name was. My answer to him was (translated into English): "This does not matter, we are all only humans." Many years later I learned that these were my
first words ever.
- I managed once to eat a whole butter cream cake (height~ 12cm) without having planned to do so...I was just hungry in the morning...
- I once stayed awake for nearly 80 hours, beginning with three whole day parties and finishing with a first aid lesson I attended, but I passed out there...
- I amputated a mutation growing out of my armpit as it started to look like a finger and almost had the size of one