Imma gonna post a real bad dork irl story later, get hype Boreans.
A'ight y'all Marvel's on.
I no longer know if I still possess this skill, but for a period at least in my life I had the preternatural ability to recall national flags from memory with little effort. Pretty much any one, from an any place, from any time (in the modern era).
This isn't exactly something you broadcast... it's fucking weird. I remember once revealing it when I was young to a cousin while we were looking at some World Cup shit and they called me a fucking dweeb, which I was (and still am).
Anyways, one night I was drinking in bed with someone I was seeing at the time and we had an argument about a flag... it was the one that belonged to the Central American country their family was from and they had been to several times. I was right and they were wrong, but they had no reason to trust my position because they didn't know about my specific kind of recall, and let's be real, Imma fucking gringo talking about Central America. Neither one of us would back down so I eventually had to get out of bed, go over to Wikipedia, and provide visual confirmation that I was in fact right and they were wrong.
For whatever reason this impressed them... I remember I had gone out of my way to learn some of the slang expressions from the Spanish spoken in that particular country so maybe they thought I was really interested in them? Anyways, since they were impressed, I felt comfortable revealing the true extent of my ability by asking them to name countries whose flag I would then describe with complete accuracy, verified by visual Wikipedia confirmation.
With the utmost respect, this person could not exactly challenge me in this game, so I decided to make it more interesting by taking a shot after every flag I got right. This additional element did not change the fundamental problem of the game, so I basically kept taking shots until I blacked out and yakked all over my room. It was quite a sight when I came to the next morning (afternoon?).
The person I was seeing was a total saint about the whole thing, helped me clean up, wasn't weirded out by either the skill or my hyper-machismo stakes raising during the game, even kept dating me for some time after... IIRC I was the one who ended things.
