The most “digitally enhanced” person in the world:
From almost the moment Le Yati Min was born, her mother knew the girl had a little something extra.
“I asked the nurses whether my kid was born complete with hands and legs,” says her mother. “They replied that the baby even has more than she needs.”
Born with 12 fingers and 14 toes, Le may be the most “digitally enhanced” person in the world. Now, the 16-month-old girl’s family in impoverished Myanmar is seeking a Guinness World Record to prove it.
A neighbor is helping her mother apply to claim the record hearing that a boy from India currently hold bragging rights for the most digits, with 12 fingers and 13 toes.
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*resists urge to make a handjob joke*
Well, I hope this story has a happy ending for someone.
You didn’t resist too hard there :p
I can’t control my fingers
I can’t control my toes
Oh oh oh oh oh oooooh….
Isn’t polydactilism (sp?) in humans supposed to be “divine” in some way?
Well, Hannibal Lecter had it, and he ate people, which Jesus told us to do…
glad they didn’t chop them off… that seems to be a typical human fallback for something on an infant that’s culturally “abnormal.”
That’s a little unfair. Extra fingers and toes aren’t always functional.
Also, as far as I know, Asian countries (at least India, don’t know about Myanmar) tend to be a bit more blasé about multiple fingers, limbs, etc. I know in some places in India it’s considered even a sign of luck/divine intervention in the child’s life.
I have no idea about Myanmar, though.
You have to realize that even if he chops them off, they are in his genes. Go Evolution!
Irreducible complexity. HAH.
Well, I’m sure that the Intelligent Designer wanted her to be able to hold a banana.
Oh, that wacky Intelligent Designer. . .
Oh, I’m sure there’s some inscrutable, totally mysterious reason that the Intelligent Designer allowed for this girl to have been born with extra digits. All we need is faith. Praise the Intelligent Designer! /sarcasm
She’s going to be a fantastic pianist.
xD
omfsm ppl have to write new music for 6 digits piano players ^^
I was thinking about how awesome a guitar player she could be.
You’d have to add a string
If that’s really a picture of her hand, then she either has seven fingers on the other one or she has ten fingers in total.
Does being able to count make me a nerd?
No, it makes you a pedant.
finger
1: any of the five terminating members of the hand : a digit of the forelimb; especially : one other than the thumb
(Merriam Webster)
what is 12-6? oh yea 6!
Where did you go to school?
No, it’s not her hand. It’s a stock image of a polydactylic hand. One could easily tell it’s not her hand by reading the article and noting the subject is a child, and looking and the image and seeing that it is quite obviously an adult’s hand.
My only question is which finger is she going to use to give someone the bird?
Thank you for my morning laugh!