Yes, a ton of things. Environmental noises would be a great example. By paying attention to the different sounds around you, you can deduce quite a lot of things. Noises help you to figure out what direction you're facing, how to orient yourself and in some cases they even prevent you from walking into a large obstacle.

A few weeks ago I ordered a pizza. The delivery person didn't come for a long time and eventually I got a phone call from the delivery girl saying that she was lost. I was confused and asked her what exactly she meant by "lost". She was already super edgy and cranky at this point and told me in an annoyed tone that she was somewhere in my neighborhood but she couldn't find my apartment building because it was too dark. To be fair, the layout of my neighborhood can be a little confusing and it's very dark at night because some of the lamps don't work. I asked her where she was and she explained that she was close to a bunch of mailboxes. I was immediately relieved because I knew what place she was talking about. It's only about 300-400 feet from my building. Trying to be friendly, I said in a cheerful tone: "oh okay, no problem, just walk towards the river! When you're there, turn left and that's the building." She replied in an even crankier tone: "what the hell are you talking about?? There's no river!! It's fucking dark out here, got it?! How the fuck am I supposed to walk to some river when it's dark?!" I was really confused and told her there was a cobblestone path that leads right up to the river. In the end, she got super bitchy and demanded that I come down and get the pizza from her. I was a little annoyed about this because what's the point of a delivery service if you have to get dressed in a hurry and stumble out into the cold rain. Later, when I walked back home with my pizza, I kept wondering why this had been such a problem for her. It was certainly too dark to spot the river in the dark but you could easily hear the sound. I didn't even need my cane because I simply walked towards the rumbling noise and when I felt grass under my shoes I turned left to walk the last 30 feet to the building.

This is just one example of sighted people being completely oblivious to their surroundings. It's not that I'm some sort of bat with super-ears, I just listen and pay attention instead of getting all whiny and cranky because it's dark.

There are many other situations like this. In my experience, sighted people act super confident as long as they can see their surroundings but as soon as they're forced to rely on their ears or their sense of touch, they're completely lost.

"I just want you to know, I think you're SO BRAVE for doing what you do!" I don't think sighted people hear that very often but boy do I hear it all the time! :D

In all honestly, the only thing that comes to mind for me is that the world feels both bigger and smaller than it is when I'm traveling. Everything feels closer because I'm in contact with the environment directly (by touch and hearing) but without the visual borders of trees/buildings/etc, everything has a sort of big, openness to it, if that makes sense. Everything else that's different for me seems to be a case of perspective and the way my experiences as a blind person has shaped my thoughts about the world; a lot of funny, weird stuff happens around/to you when you're disabled, largely because of the misconceptions the able bodied have about you, and it definitely affects your perspective.

I do sometimes hear the hum and high frequency buzz of electronics, but it turns out everyone at a certain age can hear those and I just notice more because I do have ADHD and that constant shrill drone drives me up the wall. :D I'm glad I'm reaching the age range where I can't hear such high frequencies any more.

I hear when teachers don’t narrate the work they do out on the board, or when they say “this” and “that” rather than explaining themselves. I also hear when people don’t want to bother to read to me what the board says even after I asked.

I can hear and pinpoint the location of aircon compressors in my neighborhood even though none of my other friends can. I can also tell my family's two dogs apart by the way they walk. In my room, I have smart light bulbs since I still have light perception and I like having relaxing colors when I'm in there. One day I started to hear a high-pitched whine and I was frantically searching around for the source. turns out I was hearing the coil whine from the power supplies inside of the smart bulbs. I've only ever heard it once though because of how exceptionally quiet it was that night. I have a surprisingly difficult time picking out human conversations however. I went to an audiologist because I thought something might be wrong with my ears but it turns out that the opposite is true. She told me I have some of the best hearing that she's ever tested. So I guess I'm just bad at picking up conversations.

One thing that I've realized is that I can also tell how sounds bounce off of surfaces. Different cities bounce noise around in different ways and when I visit one that doesn't bounce sound as well as what I'm used to I get a little freaked out until my brain adjusts.

the more I think about it the more I realize I'm really good at picking up coil whine. I used to have a Motorola Nexus 6 which came with a fast charger. The way I knew that it had enabled fast charging was by pressing my ear against the charging brick and listening to the frequency of the coil whine. If it got louder and shifted in pitch that meant that it had worked. That was especially helpful in the later years once the connectors started wearing out and quick charge wasn't guaranteed to activate each time. I can also press my ear against my phone and listen to how much power the processors are consuming based on whether there is coil whine present or not.

For some reason people writing with pencil sounds super loud to me.

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I can hear flies fart.