I know all the middle names of all the presidents since FDR.
I can read writing that’s upside down nearly as fast as I can read normally.
I can add a string of numbers consisting of the numbers between 1 and 9 as fast as a calculator.
I also know the middle names of the first three presidents
I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue. Hasn’t impressed anybody so far. It takes a while, and I need a stem that long enough and not too flared at the ends.
I can look at the Times crossword page for five minutes without filling in any answers, then fold the page so the clues are not visible and fill in all the correct answers from memory.
I have Pi memorized to 100 decimals. It is mildly entertaining at parties, mainly garnering the response, “Cool… but… WHY???”
I’m also a part time professional magician so I have a never ending list of magic tricks that I can do at parties that are quite entertaining, both close-up and stage.
Like a few others here, I am able to juggle as well, in fact I started juggling before I got into magic.
I can make a coin disappear with a simple slight of hand.
I have a simple card trick that blows people away. I could probably win a lot of bar bets with it if I hung out in bars and wasn’t so honest.
I can calculate exact change before the cashier can key in the amount I’m proferring. I was surprised when I discovered that people were impressed by this. Of course with debit cards I rarely have the opportunity to do this anymore.
I can toss a playing card at a row of books on the shelf so that it sticks between the books.
I can pick up something with my feet and place it on a short table.
I can put on a pair of pants, both legs at once.
No. Start by standing by the side of the bed, facing away from the bed, pants on floor, in front of you. Bend down to grab pants with both hands. Roll back on the bed, bending legs a little, aiming feet toward the pant legs. Pull on pants while legs straight in the air and then roll back on to floor standing up, pants on.
“Danny’s only a man. But he can break wind at both ends simultaneous - which is more, I reckon, than any god can do.” (Peachy Carnehan in “The Man Who Would Be King”)
You’re ahead of me there - I can wiggle both ears at once only (though the left ear moves more than the right, for whatever reason). I didn’t even know I could dot until one day in high school, I was concentrating, and realized my glasses were moving up and down my nose :D. I still have no clue just how I do it.
I can mirror-write fairly well, in cursive This has actually helped me out on two occasions. Once, when I misplaced a book in a classroom building. I saw a notice about it, didn’t realize it was mine until I got back to the dorm and realized I didn’t have my textbook. I called the office, the person who answered said “prove it’s yours, tell me what’s written inside the front cover”. I said “Um… I don’t remember exactly, but it was written backwards!”
And the time my computer monitor glitched out and started displaying everything in reverse. It wasn’t that prank where you hit a hotkey and someone’s computer display rotates, this was something different entirely. Trying to troubleshoot it, in reverse, was a real treat.
I know a lot of 1940s songs. It used to come in handy when I went for job interviews in nursing homes and I could start singing and Andrews Sisters song, or something like that. Now its Buddy Holly and some Beatles… no longer a challenge.
I used to work at one of the big chain tutoring centers. I would sit at a small table with two or three students on the other side of the table. I soon realized that rather than shuffle papers back and forth, it was easier if I wrote stuff on their papers in front of them, even though from my perspective it was upside down. Eventually I got to the point where I could write upside down as well as I could right side up.
I can cut a deck of cards with one hand, Strangely I am better at it with my left hand, even though I am right handed.
I can do a basic three ball juggle and some sleight of hand magic.
I can do something most people can’t - I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions (one thumb rotating clockwise; the other, counterclockwise).
Try it - if you are like most people, you will twiddle your thumbs in one direction, then the other, but together: you will find it very difficult to twiddle them in opposite directions, independently.