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My favorite non-obvious body part is the corpus callosum.

You ain't kidding. In neuro we learned about all sorts of awesome shit that happens to a person when their corpus callosum is severed.

Define non-obvious.

When I was a freshman in high school, I was friends with a senior who had had his corpus callosum severed years before to treat severe epilepsy. He was naturally brilliant to begin with, but if I remember correctly, he could write poetry (from memory) with one hand while writing equations with the other. He also exhibited the split-brain difficulty with naming objects when they were on his left side: he could hold a piece of chalk in his left hand but not name it until he transfered it to the right.

I watched like 4 hours of programming on the Discovery Channel on Saturday night about people with savant syndrome (they're not to be called idiot savants anymore). Actually, one of those hours was a thing about feral children. But that was cool.

Anyway, the guy Rainman was based off of, Kim Peek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek) was featured in both "The Real Rainman" and "Savants" and he's pretty fascinating.

Anyway, the reason I bring him up is that he was actually born WITHOUT a corpus callosum.

Good choice! I'm also a fan of the arbor vitae and the vomer.

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