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“How Rare Are You?”: Woman Shares Random But Interesting Genetic Facts About Humans And Here’re 25 Of The Best Ones
Article created by: Mindaugas Balčiauskas
Human beings are awesome. And the closer you look at them, the more intriguing surprises you’re bound to find. What’s especially interesting are our genes and how they’re expressed. You might not even know it, but your genetics might make you rarer than you might think! Let's have a look at some of these rare traits.
Florida-based video content creator Lexi Slaven, who also goes by her internet pseudonym Yolkfather, has created a whole bunch of videos that are as educational as they are entertaining. In her ‘How rare are you?’ TikTok video series, she examines how rare certain genetic traits really are. Starting from the basics like red hair and blue eyes and moving on to jaw-dropping things like actually being able to sneeze with your eyes open. (Now that’s a superpower we might be interested in if it turns out we can’t actually fly!)
Check out some of Lexi’s most captivating rare facts about human beings and upvote the ones that left you surprised, Pandas. Oh, and we’d love to hear if you’ve got any of these traits or can do anything mentioned in this list. For instance, I’ve got blue eyes and that means that I’m part of barely 8 percent of the entire population of the world with that fact alone!
Bored Panda reached out to Lexi to learn more about her videos and herself as a content creator. Scroll down for the full interview.
More info: TikTok | Instagram | YouTube
@yolkfather How rare are your traits? #greenscreen #foryou #funfacts #learnontiktok #mindblown
♬ original sound - Lexi Slaven
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#1
Gray eyes, only 1% of the population. Side note, some people say that gray eyes are just a form of blue eyes, but I respectfully disagree.
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#3
Green eyes, 2% of the population.
Lil be lil 7 months ago
My mother had green eyes, my father brown eyes and I have blue eyes. Two brothers have blue eyes and one brother has hazel eyes. Five siblings have brown eyes.
#4
35% of the population has no wisdom teeth. And I'm jealous of you guys because you never have to go through the pain.
#5
Heterochromia which means having two different colored eyes is found in less than 1% of the population.
#10
Freckles, 5% of the population.
#11
Only 14% of the population can make cloverleaf shape with their tongue.
#13
Hazel eyes, 5% of the population.
#14
22% of people can wiggle their ears, but only around 18% of people can wiggle both of them.
CalamityOne 7 months ago
If I can in fact wiggle both ears at the same time, will this skill help me survive a zombie apocalypse?
#16
32% of people have something called a Hitchhiker's thumb. Where when you put your thumb up, it can actually bend backwards.
#17
20% of the population has a gap between their teeth.
#22
35% of the population can gleek and 1% can do it on command. If you didn't know, that's basically where you can shoot spit from underneath your tongue.
CalamityOne 7 months ago
I can do this, but it usually only happens when I'm working on something important that doesn't need to be spat upon
#25
Only 5% of the population has arched fingerprints.
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