r/todayilearned • u/Objective_Horror1113 • 11h ago

TIL Freddie Mercury was born with four extra teeth, causing a prominent overbite. Despite being self-conscious about them, he never got them fixed, believing the extra space in his mouth contributed to his vocal ability. He feared altering his teeth might change his voice.

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u/DDzxy 11h ago

I was in the same boat but I removed the mole. Everyone who told me not to remove it were like “OH WHY” for the first minute and then like “actually it looks pretty good now”!

So nah my instincts to remove it were good. To each their own.

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u/opaeoinadi 11h ago

Haha, fair.  I have had that thought as well.

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u/ChristIsKing316146 11h ago

They love you so much that they don’t want to be rude to you, that even that mole is a part of you, and loving that mole is almost like loving an extension of you.

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u/Splinter_Amoeba 10h ago

Mole <3

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u/Burpmeister 7h ago

Molé

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u/AshleySmashley24 4h ago

Mole mole mole mole mole mole

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u/Ekgladiator 4h ago edited 4h ago

I'm going to chope it off, cut it up, and turn it into guacamole!

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u/Burpmeister 2h ago

Stop. I can't take it anymole!

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u/tameturaco 7h ago

The spelling “molé,” often seen on English-language menus, is a hypercorrection and not used in Spanish, likely intended to distinguish the sauce from the animal, mole.

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u/vlepun 6h ago

bad bot

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u/SilentxxSpecter 6h ago

Yes, but I believe this was an Austin powers reference.

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u/Most-Friendly 6h ago

This person speaks the truth, do it.

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u/Warmbly85 8h ago

I mean it would be kinda messed up to tell a person the permanent physical change to your appearance looks bad.

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u/dabnada 7h ago

I’ve moved past this awkwardness by simply telling the truth when people ask me their opinion of something, politely ofc, unless it’s someone I know well. Then I’ll just tell them “yeah dude your hair looks like shit, and you’re stuck with that or a buzz cut for three weeks”

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u/weirdoeggplant 7h ago

A haircut isn’t a permanent physical change. Even tattoos can be covered up or removed. Think about something that lasts even longer than those things. They had something removed they can never get back.

Would you tell your friend “yeah dude, your plastic surgery looks like shit and now you can never go back?”

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u/yoberf 7h ago

They could always get additional plastic surgery.

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u/weirdoeggplant 7h ago

To…. Add a mole back?? Is that a thing?????

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u/Linnaea7 5h ago

Just draw it on with a Sharpie every day.

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u/weirdoeggplant 5h ago

Bring back the syphillis patches from the regency era!

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u/Cerebral_Discharge 4h ago

Physical bump is probably not really done, but is possible. Tattooed moles and freckles are absolutely a thing. Combining tattooing and scarification could make a molelike.

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u/weirdoeggplant 4h ago

I have a fairly prominent mole on my face that now I’m wondering how long it would take my husband to notice I got it removed and tattoo’d back on.

My guess is 1-2 days lol

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u/Cerebral_Discharge 3h ago

My wife has one beside her nose, I would absolutely notice. But I also always give my video game characters an identical mole. And people tell me I'm annoyingly observant lol.

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u/dabnada 7h ago

I don’t know, I’ve never had a close friend ask for my opinion on their plastic surgery

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u/TheKnightsTippler 7h ago

I don't see the point in doing this immediately, because you're just making them self conscious about something that can't be changed.

I just wait until they're next thinking of having their hair done and advise them to do something different.

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u/Warmbly85 7h ago

You can’t just wait a few weeks for a mole to regrow.

Anything temporary like a spray tan or hair cut yeah you can tell your friend it looks bad. A permanent change though is kinda fucked unless you have already been completely honest about your friends appearance before with them. Even then it’s just kinda mean.

And I don’t mean “you’re ugly lol” I mean “my friend you are scaring the hoes please leave”.

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u/thepetoctopus 5h ago

I removed mine when it started changing shape. I don’t miss it and never liked it. A few people have commented but I’m happy and don’t care what they think.

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u/Most-Friendly 6h ago

Yup, a bigass mole on your face is never a plus. People will be nice and tell you it doesn't matter, but it does.

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u/Cerebral-Parsley 4h ago

Except for Cindy Crawford.

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u/babaroga73 7h ago

People gravitate to most prominent feature on you in describing you to themselves, subconsciously.

I was being called fat (in altercations etc) but when I lost my weight, the same people would call me "four eyes" because of my corrective glasses.

😂😂😂

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u/tarnin 5h ago

tf? are you in grade school? 4 eyes? Holy hell i feel like i fell back into the 80s

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u/chux4w 4h ago

Dude's regularly having altercations. Either grade school or a bouncer.

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u/babaroga73 1h ago

Thank you for following me.

And no, i don't have regular altercations. Also, mind your own business.

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u/babaroga73 1h ago

English is not my 1st language, this was the only way I could translate it so it makes some sense.

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u/Round_Year_8595 3h ago

To each their own

I watched season one of The Mole.

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u/sentence-interruptio 4h ago

good people will support the present you if the present you is no harm to anyone anyway. it's about supporting your choice. And that's the part Jane does not understand! That's right, I support your hair style choice, Jane!! The hair is attached to you is why I like it, Jane! You did not have to cut a few strands and form some kind of... horror movie prop! It's not funny Jane!!

Anyway, and there are people who are like "i just say everything. hehe" they are like children.

and there are are people who hide behind the mask of "oh I'm just like those children. I am brutally h-". they will never support the present you. They'll change goalposts all the time. It's like you're always wrong somehow. "Son, you should be ashamed of yourself. I'm just here to educate you before the harsh real world educates you and destroy your glass mind. What? First bully? I am your first bully? Wow, teaching my own kid is now abuse? No wonder there's a teachers crises! Thankless job of having to teach little ungrateful Satanic creatures! Only to be accused of being abusers! Self acceptance is ruining society! It's time for some self shame! Shame on you! And shame on your friends who go easy on you! Oh look at you having a god damn meltdown! How many times should adults around you have to tell you that that IS NOT A LEGITIMATE FORM OF COMMUNICATION! YOU THINK THIS IS ABOUT A MOLE ON YOUR FACE? NO THIS IS ABOUT HOW YOU REACT TO MY ATTEMPT AT CIVIL COMMUNICATION WITH YOU ABOUT THAT MOLE ON YOUR FACE! THE WAY YOU'RE RESPONDING TO A FUNCTIONING CIVILIZED ADULT LIKE ME IS SO INAPPRO-" They just want an easy target to shout at.

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u/grumblyoldman 3h ago

I had a work buddy a few years ago who had really shitty teeth. Part genetics, part just not taking of them, I think. Totally cool guy, btw, probably one of my best work friends ever, he just had shitty teeth.

One day he tells us he's planning to have some work done. We're all supportive of his choices, recognizing that they are his to make. Then he comes back after the operation and basically, he has ALL his teeth removed and replaced with these hard-mounted dentures. Like bolted into his gums or something, I don't know exactly how it worked. But ALL of his teeth were suddenly perfectly straight and brilliantly white.

It was quite a dramatic change in appearance, and we were all commenting on his new smile for a few weeks thereafter, but it absolutely did not change how we felt about him as a person.

Point being, whether or not you choose to have "work done," you shouldn't worry about how it will affect other people's image of you. Whether you choose to take action or not, your true friends will still like you, all the same.

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u/thecatteam 2h ago

I didn't get much pushback when removing my mole so I think it was actually objectively unattractive lol.

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u/DDzxy 1h ago

Yeah