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“How Rare Are You?”: Woman Shares Random But Interesting Genetic Facts About Humans And Here’re 30 Of The Best Ones
Interview
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
30% of the population can raise one eyebrow.
cb !!! 4 years ago
my proudest achievement is being able to raise an eyebrow... on either side! i can look inquisitive on the right or left :)
ejfs 4 years ago
I can do this too! But one side is "stronger" than the other....
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Shelly Thibodeau 4 years ago
I do this when I am displeased. The children refer to it as "the eyebrow." :)
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Me again, taught myself to do it in high school because I liked its effect.
I was very curious to learn more about the inspiration behind the super popular 'How rare are you?' videos. "My inspiration behind this series was to try to get people to embrace what makes them unique!" Lexi told Bored Panda. "I think it resonated with so many people because I tried to include many different things so that hopefully whoever was watching would be able to find something that they could relate to," she said she was as inclusive as she could be.
Bored Panda was interested to hear a bit about what it's like to have such a large following on TikTok. Lexi opened up that it's been a life-changing experience. "It has changed my life! It still shocks me that there are so many people who love and support me and care about what I have to say. It’s given me confidence in who I am and has made me a better person because I know that I have younger fans who look up to me and I want to be a good role model for them."
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#2
Green eyes, 2% of the population.
Me Oh My 4 years ago
I have blue-gray-green eyes, do I count? And sometimes they look gray or blue, depends on what I'm wearing.
Jeff K 4 years ago
Same! I have no idea what to write in that "eye color" box.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
I started life with completely brown eyes and they have gradually changed colors. Now they are still brown in the very middle but the rest is green.
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
I'm the only one in my family, grandparents, parents, siblings and my own children, who has green eyes - no idea where they came from as everyone else's are a shade of blue - if I didn't look so like my siblings I'd think my mum had some explaining to do
Debbie Burns 4 years ago
LOVE MY GREEN EYES 👀💗! fun fact, I CONSTANTLY have green eyes around me! With both parents having green eyes and 90% of both sides of my fam, Scottish and Irish, I think I notice it more BC it's rare. Either way. Green eyes ROCK
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Same her!! In my family almost all of us have green eyes or blue!!! Brown and black are rare among us!
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BookCrazyTeen 4 years ago
I have hazel eyes, and I like them, but I’ve always wished I had green eyes, they’re so pretty!
#3
35% of the population has no wisdom teeth. And I'm jealous of you guys because you never have to go through the pain.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I have wisdom teeth, but I'm the only person I know who not only has all four of them, but had them come through perfectly straight with no pain. So I'm lucky in a different way I guess. :)
Naomi Pollock 4 years ago
I am 65 and I remember how excited my dentist was when he realized when I was 9 that I had no wisdom teeth as I was his first patient who had none. I was a very confused child and thought there was something wrong with me, why did I have to be "different". I still smile when I think back to that day.
Jennie Lynch 4 years ago
I've been blessed this way. I love bragging about it to my partner who has had *5* removed haha
Sky Render 4 years ago
I've never had any problems with or removal of any wisdom teeth in 40 years, so I guess I'm one of the lucky 35%?
deathrose 4 years ago
I only have the upper 2 wisdom teeth but they are super high up. My dentist said he isn't worried about them coming in at all. When he first went looking for them, he couldn't find any on the regular x-ray so he used the large standing one because he was confused about not seeing any. He was even more confused about me only having the top set and how high in my jaw they were. It was the first time he'd ever seen anything like that.
Lexi explained that she followed in the footsteps of her favorite creators and wanted to become a positive role model for others. "When I was younger, I watched a lot of YouTube videos and I had creators that I looked up to. Sometimes if I was having a bad day these videos were like an escape for me and they would cheer me up. I want to be that person for someone else," she said.
"My followers always suggest topics for me to make videos on and I try to listen to them as much as I can!"
Lexi is a force to be reckoned with on TikTok. She has a whopping 2.4 million followers on the platform. Meanwhile, she’s collected just shy of 100 million (that’s right!) likes on TikTok. That just goes to show that the content she creates and her personality shine through in the endless stream of videos on the platform.
The TikToker creates videos about fun facts (that's where her videos about genetic traits come in), does storytimes, shares various theories, and does a bit of everything else.
#4
Heterochromia which means having two different colored eyes is found in less than 1% of the population.
Brandy Dor 4 years ago
My ex husband was left handed, red headed, and had heterochromia, basically a unicorn....and as we all know unicorns are arseholes!
Me Oh My 4 years ago
I don't trust anything with a built-in weapon. Especially if they claim not to use it.
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Mad Dragon 4 years ago
I have blue/gold central heterochromia. My eyes are blue with a gold ring around my pupil.
the annoying theatre kid 4 years ago
i have heterochromia AND partial heterochromia. one of my eyes is light grey and the other is dark blue. in the dark blue one, my eye has two stripes of brown from my pupil to the outside of my iris.
That_One_Frog 4 years ago
I have partial heterochromia. One is is normal brown but one eye has brown green blue and orange mixed. And im a redhead!
Fiona Parky 4 years ago
I have heterochromia iridia centralis. Basically I have a ring around my iris that’s a completely different colour. My eyes are mainly greenish grey around the edge of my iris. They’re yellow orange in the centre.
#5
Only 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
J. F. 4 years ago
Being left handed can be annoying in some cases - nearly everything is designed to work with right dominance only
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Got you covered :) https://www.leftyslefthanded.com/
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Let’s Be Kind 4 years ago
Lefties unite! I’d say most of us lefties have to learn to be ambidextrous. Just a left handed girl in a right handed world…
Dave P 4 years ago
actually it is 20-25%, the 10% is data from the 1950s, and long since disproven
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
And most of us are either in the creative or medical fields.
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Kaylee Harding 4 years ago
It's a pain while writing in general because the lead or ink gets on the side of your hand.
heyitsfionabtw 4 years ago
I write with my right hand, but I hold my pencil a very very odd and specific way, so my pinky brushes onto the paper and is often covered in lead. So, yes, I feel your pain!
Load More Replies... Sky Render 4 years ago
Sinistrals, represent! And be thankful that the era of senseless murdering of lefties is long gone...
#6
30% of people can flare their nostrils on command.
Monday 4 years ago
I thought that too, brought it up with a group of friends and found out I was the only one out of us that could do it. Apparently those of us that can do it just never considered that others couldn't.
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Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Jeez, one rare trait that I have and it's absolutely useless , unnoticeable, and unnecessary.
Tami 4 years ago
Maybe you could use it as a secret signal with an SO or friend, like to mean "let's get outa here" or "he's so full of crap" or something like that.
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Jonathan 4 years ago
I can flare my nostrils on demand, raise each eyebrow individually and wiggle my ears individually too...that's the extent of my talent lol
Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
Only 30%?! I'm not sure if I believe this, I just figured everyone could
Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
And so far, everyone in the comments can, sooo....
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Mad Dragon 4 years ago
I can flare my nostrils and wiggle my ears. What a lame superpower to have.
According to World Atlas, the vast majority of the world’s population has brown eyes. However, it’s incredibly difficult to pinpoint the exact number. The best guess is that anywhere from 70 to 79 percent of human beings have brown eyes. Meanwhile, from 8 to 10 percent of people have blue eyes.
Even rarer than blue eyes are hazel and amber eyes, with around 5 percent of the global population (that’s 1 in 20 people on the street) having them. Gray eyes make up barely 3 percent of the total while green ones make up only 2 percent. The rarest eye color is red/violet, with less than a single percent of people having such eyes. Similarly, less than 1 percent of people have heterochromia which means that both of your eyes are different colors.
#7
20% of the population sneezes when they go outside in the sun.
smugdruggler 4 years ago
It's called ACHOO syndrome. Autosomal-dominant Compulsive Helio Opthalmic Outburst syndrome. Someone worked hard on that acronym lol.
Fester Sixonesixonethree 4 years ago
If you feel a need to sneeze but cannot, look at the brightest light in your immediate area. This will usually trigger a sneeze.
smugdruggler 4 years ago
Afaik the cause of rosacea is unknown, unfortunately. Very unlikely I would think to be related to photic sneezing (the other name for 'ACHOO').
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Blue eyes, only 8% of the world population.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
Really? I know so many people with blue eyes but then I guess the biggest populations are southern hemisphere so it makes sense the blues would be outnumbered.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
Nope. Biggest population is northern hemisphere. Whole of asia is north. India and China lack blue eyes mostly (some in india), but they're 36% of the world. Just those two. what percentage of world population lives in southern hemisphere - google. Answer: 15% ... Reason blue is rare is because it's mostly NW europe and USA.
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Dorthe Schou-Nielsen 4 years ago
Reminds me of a post where someone (Caucasian = blue eyes) wrote how weird it would be if people had the same color skin and hair as the color of their eyes. Someone from Africa wrote back "Boy, do I have news for you".
Me Oh My 4 years ago
I have blue-gray-green eyes, do I count? And sometimes they look gray or greenish, depends on what I'm wearing.
Marie1 4 years ago
Same here. People ask what color are your eyes and I have to say depends on what I'm wearing and my mood.
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Robert T 4 years ago
A fair proportion of those in Copenhagen commute over the bridge from Sweden.
Load More Replies... Susie Kamper 3 years ago
When I was a kid 30 years ago, brown eyes were so rare that we found them exotic. Times have changed but blue eyes are still majority in Scandinavia.
#9
1% is ambidextrous.
Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
I had to give my right arm for 6 months to be ambidextrous. I broke it, and the cast covered my hand, so I had to learn how to do everything left handed. So now I’m ambidextrous
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
People have a very different definition of ambidextrous. I would say it has to be that you have equal abilities with both hands, so you can play sports, write, use scissors, eat, whatever it is, just as well with both hands.
Gabby M 4 years ago
Had a friend way back when who could not ONLY write with both hands, she could do it at the same time, Forward AND Backward ... WTH is that called?!
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I’m slightly ambidextrous. I’m mostly right-handed, but there are some things that work better with my left. I can throw a ball farther with my left arm than my right. I also wear my watch on my right wrist like a southpaw does. I even balance better on my left leg. I’ve been like this since I can remember, so it isn’t from any kind of training or anything.
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
I write with my left hand but do everything else with my right so I can relate.
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Silre 4 years ago
My uncle was, but that's because he's teacher made him used his right hand instead of his left.
BoopBoop 4 years ago
A lot of lefties that a pre-generation X were forced to write with their right hands, creating an inflated population of ambidextrous people XD
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Dotti Lydecker 4 years ago
I’m ambidextrous and it has it’s downside. I don’t have a strong left - right orientation so I think left but turn right. I have to really concentrate before I give people directions or I’ll mislead them. And, I get lost all the time. Upside is I can mentally create objects in 3D, rotate and reverse view them and know exactly how a complex flat shape will look when folded. Laying out double sided circuit boards was a piece of cake. I used to be able to write mirror image using both hands at once but arthritis now makes it too difficult. Weird, I know🙃!
Jeff Brock 4 years ago
My mother is ambidextrous, but that seems to be the result of coming from a generation that got beatings if they used their left hand. She has beautiful handwriting and you can't tell from looking at it, which hand she used. Weirdly enough, and I have never seen anyone else able to do this, she can write with both hands at the same time...and not necessarily the same thing.
P. Mozzani 4 years ago
My mother (who would be 100 years old today) was beaten and mocked for being left-handed. Her teachers demanded that she use her right hand. My grandmother (European and extremely old-school) used to tie my Mom's left arm behind her, so that she would be forced to use her right hand. She did not become ambidextrous, but her (right-handed) handwriting was always awkward.
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The field of genetics continues to advance. Even facts that we took for granted (remember those biology lessons back at school) are now being updated and revised. For instance, scientists used to think that your eye color was determined by only two genes, one from each parent. You’re likely to remember doing some exercises in class where you’d see what color eyes a child would have if one parent has e.g. two dominant brown-eyed genes and one has recessive blue-eyed genes.
However, Healthline points out that we’re now aware that things are far more complicated. “Your eye color is determined by several genes that control melanin production in your iris. Darker eyes have a lot of melanin, while light eyes have only a little.”
#10
Red hair, less than 2% of the population.
Panda-riffic 4 years ago
Wooooo, I belong to another 2% club! Oh, wait now.... mine is from a box. LOL :-P
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
I've seen redheads in different natural shades with brown or green eyes and no abundance of freckles.
Load More Replies... Lolly 4 years ago
I have a left handed son with red hair. A red haired blue eyed son and I have red hair and I am a colour blind woman which is apparently very rare and is also hereditary I got it from my dad who only realised he was colour blind when he tried to join the navy and failed a test they did until then he thought everybody saw the same thing as him. I can also roll my tongue which is also hereditary which I got from my dad too.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
Red-haired, blue-eyed, and left-handed here. Welcome to the weirdo club! ;)
Load More Replies... Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
Mom's whole side, and my brother, but me?!?! Nope! But I've been dying it red for 30 dang years!! Mom said she would have done anything if I'd have been the red head instead of my brother....so, yeah, I dyed it (not because of her comment, don't worry :))
Cherries and Lace 4 years ago
I know the feeling! Mom, sister, grandmas and a grandpa (and now my son). I got mousy brown. I dye it red a lot. But I also dye it blonde, purple, pink, blue, green, RED, etc
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#11
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.
Isabel Care 4 years ago
Bluey, greeny, grey with amber flecks and changing hues. So I say not brown.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I actually have grey-blue eyes, but they are grey so I'm going to count them. My eyes are especially weird because I'm certain light they're blue, in other their grey. Also if I wear a bright color they looks more blue, and even my mood can affect it. Also my limbal ring around my pupil is brown, not another shade of blue or grey, which is something I've never seen on anyone else.
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
I'll tell you why. Blue is not actually a real eye colour. it's simply the absence of colour/pigmentation in the iris.like the ocean and sky, colourless things naturally reflect the blue wavelength. Your eye colour will thus vary depending on the light in the environment. So if someone asks you what your eye colour is, you can say it depends lol.
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Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
My daughter's eyes are that slate blue color that all babies are born with. She's 7 and they haven't changed since the day she was born.
Yagi-chan 4 years ago
They probably will stay that way! I’m a adult with this eye color.
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Me Oh My 4 years ago
Me, kinda sorta! My eyes are blue-gray-green, they look gray if I'm wearing warm colors, green if I'm wearing green or neutral colors, and blue if they're cool colors.
The only Plueschopossum 4 years ago
Omg yes! Same here! And they look green in the sunlight. I'm 33 years old and my mom is still fascinated how they seem to "change" their color XD
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April Caron 4 years ago
My eyes are definitely grey! It’s often the first thing people notice about me. And probably the physical feature most people comment on.
LOttawa 4 years ago
Same 🙂. I've had comments from total strangers about my eyes (nice comments). I still remember the lady at the DMV when I first got my licence (I was 17, I'm 40 now), I was the first one she had ever seen.
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Judo Flipped By Nobody 4 years ago
I have a mix of green, blue, gray and yellow eyes. The yellow is a circle in the middle.
#12
10% of the world's population has something called Morton's toe, which is where your second toe is longer than your big toe.
jimmy pop 4 years ago
I have it as well, never had any issues with shoes. And looking at the shape of shoe tips, which are usually always the longest at the 2nd toe. I would assume other people must have issues.
Load More Replies... Tami 4 years ago (edited)
AKA Greek foot. There's also Roman, Egyptian, Germanic, and a few others. Greek is generally considered to be the most aesthetically pleasing and is used the most in artworks. It's not the healthiest though, but as always, "It is better to look good than to feel good!"
Mari 4 years ago
I didn't know that! I will tell my son he has Greek feet.
Load More Replies... Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Wait, that's not the norm? o_O Then why do we always draw feet that way?
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
Chinese people have toes like that. They think my toes are weird because my big toe is longer than my second toe.
GlassHalfWay 4 years ago
Yeah, my husband has baby fingers as toes and can pinch like a MF'er!!
Eunice Probert 4 years ago
I have that. My second toe is significantly longer. Probably why I've broken them on both feet.
Healthline explains that brown eyes look dark to us because they have a lot of light-absorbing melanin. Meanwhile, blue eyes have the least amount of melanin, so they reflect the most light. What this means is that reality isn’t as simple as what a lot of us were used to during biology class.
“Because you inherit genes from your parents, it’s likely that your eyes will be similar in color to one or both of your parents. But it’s also possible for you to have brown eyes, even if both of your parents have blue eyes.”
#13
Only 35% of people have perfect vision without glasses.
Eseri Akullu 4 years ago
I think it's other factors. When I was in school in a rural area, absolutely no one had eye defects even after medical checkups. Then I moved to another school in an urban area and 75% of the class has a eye defect of some sort
Hermien Scholten 4 years ago
I read somewhere that people in cities, and a lot of kids nowadays are more nearsighted because their eyes aren't used to looking over a great distances, because there are less opportunities for them to do so.
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Barbara Skolly 4 years ago
My eyesight is not as good as it once was and is still better than 20/20 and i'll be 40 this year. It is not lost on me that I am lucky
Beto River 4 years ago
Green eyes, can raise an eyebrow, can flare my nostrils on command and... damn, I lost this one just last year... don't have eyeglasses yet though
Miguel justino C 4 years ago
I had puberty headaches while growing. Got subscribed reading glasses. Perfect vision to this day. The doctor got his money
Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
I'm amongst the lucky ones not needing glasses or lenses, but, according to sight tests, my vision isn't that perfect. My left eye seems to be slightly short sighted for a long, long time. Also, my left eyelid is slightly more closed than my right, but it's noticeable only when I do make-up, so I have to apply eyeliner accordingly. Anyway, I expect it to start deteriorating in a couple of decades or so.
#14
14% of the population can whistle.
Ba Loeloe 4 years ago
Really? Seems like a lot more than that. Maybe higher if only adults are included?
Bobby 4 years ago
maybe they mean that whistle with your fingers, i've tried for years with no luck
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I can't, so it's good to know that's not too weird.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Just put your lips together and blow. (Yes, GenX)
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Random Panda 4 years ago
Maybe it's a certain type of whistle? I can do a pretty loud one with just my tongue, but I can't do that one where you put two fingers in your mouth.
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#15
Freckles, 5% of the population.
Monday 4 years ago
I think they just mean a lot of freckles like the girl in the picture. I have freckles but not nearly that many.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
I can confirm! Red hair and freckles here!
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Groundcontroltomajortom 4 years ago
I have freckles, moles and vitiligo... the sun is my worst enemy. I hate my skin!
Cindy Hoffman 3 years ago
And me! Only 1 daughter out of the six family members had no freckles. Poor kid but she has awesome dimples!
#16
Only 14% of the population can make cloverleaf shape with their tongue.
Hot Babushka 4 years ago
im green eyed, left handed, and can do this too!!!
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Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
From tongue to eyebrows lifting. I try them all.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I went to school with a girl who could do that! It looked so weird.
#17
Only 2% of the world's population has naturally blond hair.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I was born with very blonde hair and had it all the way till I gave birth and then it started getting darker.
Gabby M 4 years ago
Started as a Tow head (white) to bright blond to golden blond then BAM kids!! Now it's what my mother used to call "dishwater blond" Still yellow brows though.
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Lou Cam 4 years ago
It's normal for many children in Western Europe to be born blond and then darken around puberty. My whole family were like this. I have medium brown hair now no hint I was ever blond. Blond being natural to childhood is one reason why a lot.of people dye their hair this colour to look younger.
Robert T 4 years ago
I went blonde for a while when my hair grew back after chemo. My eyebrows are still mostly blonde!
Cecilia 4 years ago
Mine grew back white after chemo. I've had salt and pepper hair since I was 11 y/o
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J.L. Martin 4 years ago
My blond hair darkened as I entered my teens. My two children have remained blond their whole lives.
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
When I was 12 yo I became best friends with a guy whose blond hair was nearly white. As we got older, it got darker. Last time I saw him, in our mid 20s, it was definitely more yellow, and leaning towards darker than that.
#18
Hazel eyes, 5% of the population.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
I was gonna say. Still very, very rare
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Need to be more specific... hazel has a couple different meanings. It can be a medium-light creamy brown, or it can be two-tone brown inner and green outer iris
Alex Bailey 4 years ago
Hazel is actually not a true colour in itself, but rather a blend of various colours. The eye displays a combination of greens, browns, and/or blues. The colour in this photo is amber.
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Donna Leske 4 years ago
It's a stretch to call those eyes hazel, they are amber. Here are hazel eyes; DSCN0074-6...2b13e6.jpg 
BookCrazyTeen 4 years ago
Mine are really close to the ‘with green flecks’
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#19
22% of people can wiggle their ears, but only around 18% of people can wiggle both of them.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
It's not about being hard or easy; the muscles that allow humans to wiggle their ears are vestigial. Leftovers from ancestors that could pivot their ears (like dogs and cats do). So that 18% are the people who still have enough of that muscle left to use it :)
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Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I can flare my nostrils and wiggle both ears. Blue eyes. Red hair. I'm a flipping unicorn!!!
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
AND I have arched fingerprints. WHAT THE HECK???
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Rose Yellow Mint 4 years ago (edited)
Oh thats my dad. He used to wiggle his ears to make us laugh :) now he uses his this skill to make grandchildren laugh :)
rebel _ phoenix 4 years ago (edited)
I am in that 18% but my brother taught me. Here's how: Put on some glasses, then try to put them up your nose without using your hands. Doing this slowly made me wiggle both ears..
Sanni Salo 4 years ago
Wiggling ears is more common than the ability to whistle? I don't think so.
#20
Only around 25% of the population has dimples.
Rose Yellow Mint 4 years ago
I have a dimple on my right cheek, my husband has one on his left cheek. And our daughter has dimples on both cheeks :)
Samantha Prendergast 4 years ago
I am one of these people. I was once complimented about it. I have two on the left side of my cheek and one on my right.
Michael Fuhry 4 years ago
Dimples on both my cheeks, and one in my chin. I'm dying for a woman to come up to me, place her forefinger lightly on my chin, and exclaim, "How do you shave in there?"
Potato fries 4 years ago
I have really visible dimples lol im probs the most dimpled out of my fam
#21
32% of people have something called a Hitchhiker's thumb. Where when you put your thumb up, it can actually bend backwards.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago (edited)
I can do that. I love freaking people out with it.
Nazda Pokmov 4 years ago
Dang... I just did this and now I, too, have a hitchhiker's thumb...didn't know that about me.... I thought my thumbs were normal....HA!!
OffKeySinger 4 years ago
I finally found my Hitchhiker's thumb family in the comments here. I thought I was alone
ACatNamedStromboli 3 years ago
My oldest has hypermobility and she can do this along with some other freaky things.
#22
About 1% of the population has a double line of eyelashes.
Jessica Rabbit 4 years ago
Elizabeth Taylor had double lashes and would have her makeup artist separate each one for maximum fullness...
𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
This runs in my family (: my eyelashes are the one thing I really like about my body and always get compliments on. Which is kind of strange when you think about it 👀
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I'm the kind of person that compliments the nice eyelashes!!! I really like them!!! They make the eyesight more intense
Load More Replies... BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I think I have this, but I really can't tell. I have very thick eyelashes, so maybe.
ButFirstCoffee 3 years ago
As someone with a single line of straight and short lashes, I'm extremely jaleous of them. Luckily, there are fake lashes for special occasions.
#23
33% of the population has a widow's peak.
My O My 4 years ago
So that's what it's called. I usually refer to that as "mickey mouse hairline"
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I like your version better!!! In my country we just call it peak! First time i hear the term widow's peak
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LittleMissPanda 4 years ago
A widow's peak is a V-shaped point in the hairline in the center of the forehead. I didn't know it either
#24
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.
achilles get down from there 4 years ago
I’ve only ever done it by accident! Usually when yawning haha
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
I usually wait for that to happen accidentally during a socially awkward moment.
GlassHalfWay 4 years ago
I can too! And blow spit bubbles that actually leave my tongue and float. Yes, it's a gross talent.
#25
20% of the population is double jointed.
Alexandra Davis 4 years ago
EDS zebra here- not only hyper mobile but dislocate like 10-20 times a day.
Laura Pantazis 4 years ago
I wear a brace every night to bed to prevent my shoulder from dislocating in my sleep. Ever since I started doing that, my shoulder has stopped dislocating - even when I'm awake. I think it dislocated or subluxed so often in my sleep that it made the area weaker.
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GlassHalfWay 4 years ago
Ugh "double jointed". No, there's only one joint. That means your hypermobile. When my son was 10, he corrected his gym teacher on this one. (I'm a physical therapist & taught him the real meaning). She just said...oh, ok.
Hans (TheRealMoleman) 4 years ago
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as "double jointed". Those people simply have hyper-flexibility.
Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
You mean they're hypermobile. There's no such thing as double jointed.
Pheebs 4 years ago
That’s not double jointed. That’s a yoga pose you can train yourself to do.
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#26
20% of the population has a gap between their teeth.
Lady Vader 4 years ago
I'll never have a thigh gap but I love my teeth gap. Dentists have offered to close it for years and I'm always like NOPE!
Tamora Spiller 4 years ago
How many of that percent have Invisalign to close that gap? Because I'm in that percentage as well.
Leodavinci 4 years ago
Spouse had a gap when got married, but it disappeared a couple of decades ago.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Mine disappeared too when my wisdom teeth started pushing their way out! I removed them but the damage was done! I miss that gap it was so cute in my teenage photos
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Sandra Evans 3 years ago
Runs in my family. I fixed mine with braces, but my daughter’s came back even after having her frenum cut.
ButFirstCoffee 3 years ago
A little gap can be cute, a large gap puts you in the Dingo category
#27
Vitaligo less than 1% of the population.
Groundcontroltomajortom 4 years ago
People saying they love this/wish they had this.... this tends to develop later on in life, for me in my 20's. It started off slowly then got progressively worse. I was devastated and felt like such a freak, my self esteem hit rock bottom and I would cry when I looked in the mirror. I have to wear sunscreen on even a cold sunny day to stop my skin burning as there is no pigment so the patches are like having albino skin. This then brings me out in spots and is horrible to wear all the time. I have to avoid the sun where possible unless I want it to be really visible, even though I have light skin. Do not wish for something you cannot understand please.
Art3mis 3 years ago
Your not a freak! You are beautiful and special so be proud of what makes you unique!
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Piper Rainey 4 years ago
I have it and it's caused by autoimmune problems not genetics. The immune system destroys the melanocytes that give skin it's pigmentation.
My O My 4 years ago
I see more and more people with vitiligo. Are they getting more or are people just giving a s**t about it
Spring Fisk 4 years ago
It is getting more and more recognition because M Jackson and others. My mom has it although you can only tell during the summer because she already has very light skin.
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#28
Only 3% of the population has Xs on their palms. The critics of palmistry, these people are considered extremely lucky.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I have an X with one line very faint. Am I kinda sorta faintly lucky? Because I sure could use some really good luck right now.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I have a big X on the BACK of my left hand. Is that why I'm so unlucky???
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
I have a bunch on both palms, never considered myself to be lucky but I am greatful for where I'm at/what I have in this moment of life.
StormWolf 4 years ago
I have one on each palm, clear as day. And y'know what? I've not lived a ridiculously lucky existence (like, at 𝘢𝘭𝘭) I have, however, lived most of my last fe like I was invincible. I cannot count all the times I placed myself into situations where I should have straight-up died lol but I lived to tell which to me has always been weird. This iis is as good an explanation for it as anything else
#29
Only 5% of the population has arched fingerprints.
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
Me . . . . . but then I realised I'd be needing a magnifying glass (age has taken its toll on my sparklers).
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I have extremely faint fingerprints. They’re extremely hard for electronic fingerprint readers to read. What percentage of people have that?
Vicky Z 4 years ago
No idea but i would like to know what percentage of criminals have faint fingerprints! Probably we will never know
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Sasha 4 years ago
Wait what? I thought everyone's fingerprints actually looked like that and the spiraly look was just in cartoons.....
#30
Less than 10% of people only have one dimple.
#31
Only 3% of the population is a twin.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
are people still having more and more twins from ivf or did that calm down?
#32
16% of the population is taller than six feet.
TheBlackPanda (JustABlackBear) 4 years ago
I'm part of the 16%😌. The weather up here is nice, thanks for asking lol
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I know you are sick of this question but as a short person i have to say that noone has ever asked me how is the weather down here!!! Nobody cares about us?😢
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Chris Freeman 4 years ago
I hope they measured. I am a real 6'1", (sometimes even Dr offices write 6'2"), but other guys who are 4 inches shorter than me always try to say they are 6' tall. Never understood the desire of what is magical about being 6' for men, but most men who say they are 6' tall are liars. Must be what iblowsheep said in women saying they want someone 6'. Never seemed to help me much in the ladies department, I must have other defects.
#33
10% of the population can touch their tongue to their nose.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Nah. I've tried before and already know I can't.
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Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
It is a muscle but that doesn't mean it can extend so much! Mine for example is too short for that even if i press my nose down i cannot do that
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#34
This muscle in your wrist used to be used by our ancestors to help them climb trees. And some people still have it. To check it, put your thumb and pinky together and bend your hand.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I have one in my left hand, but not my right. Is that weird?
Petra, princess of Brigid 4 years ago
Ah, so that's what it is. I thought it was like a vein or tendon that stuck out.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I still have mine, didn't help me climb trees when I was younger though.
#35
14% of the population can fold their tongue in half.
#36
1% of people have a tiny hole above their ear.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Everyone who read this immediately started feeling around their ears. Well, I did anyway. :p
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
Yes, everybody reading through this article is wiggling around, whistling, flexing their wrists and tongues, testing what percent they fall in. Imagine, thousands of BP fans exercising in unison, all over the world!
Load More Replies... SykesDaMan 4 years ago
I know someone who has this. The only member in the family. Had to be monitored for the first few years of their life though. It's called a preauricular pit.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
A preauricular pit is thought to be an evolutionary leftover of yes... a gill!
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#37
1% of the population can actually sneeze with their eyes open.
Bored Birgit 4 years ago (edited)
I tried that many times when driving, but never succeeded. Now I know why.
#38
The rarest Zodiac sign is Aquarius. Taking up only around 6.3% of the population.
Vorknkx 4 years ago (edited)
Which suggests the April/May period has fewer people having sex? (that's 9 months before being born as Aquarius)
Lauren 4 years ago
Mother's Day in the US - Babies in February. Father's Day in the US - Babies in March. And so on. Fertilization to birth = 10 months.
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Moneythink 4 years ago
Since the average percentage would be about 8%, that's not what I would call rare.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I'm an Aquarian, and four friends I grew up with are also Aquarian. Given the rarity of Aquarians, it's interesting that we managed to congregate like this.
#39
Less than 1% of the population has a birthday on leap day. Meaning their birthday technically only comes around once every four years.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
The title says genetic traits, but the link says population traits.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
My cousin was almost born on a leap day and my aunt was freaking out, but she ended up being born on the 25th instead.
Noel Benavente 4 years ago
Another fact that has nothing to do with genetics... and no, these people can celebrate their birthday on March 1st; the earth completes its orbit despite the date is not in the calendar.
Ba Loeloe 4 years ago
That's not the way to calculate how many people are born on February 29.
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#40
Roughly 11% of people have a cleft chin.
SykesDaMan 4 years ago (edited)
We used to call it the "Kirk Douglas" even though, it looks now that he didn't have a full one! :)
Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
Unfortunately? It’s cool! I have one as well, you’ll get used to it
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#41
12% of people only dream in black and white.
Lyuben Petkov 4 years ago
Untill I was 4-5 years old - all my dreams were in black and white, once my family switched to color TV set - my dreams become to have colors
Mean Red B 4 years ago
S**t, my dreams are LSD, mushrooms and other lucid stuff level of vivid. They even induce emotions that I wake up with. I'd love a B&W dream once a while.
Koda Bear She/He/They 4 years ago
Wait that sounds so cool I have always had colored dreams or no dreams and it’s just black the whole night
Jennifer Johnson 4 years ago
I've had these. also ones with a narrator and ones where i'm sitting in an audience watching
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Yeah that just sounds like people saying they do to sound cool or something.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Isn't it more rare to dream in colour and normal to dream in black and white?
#42
1% of the population can lick their elbow.
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
My father told the neighborhood kids he'd give a prize to anyone who could kiss their elbow. Practically the whole elementary school dislocated their arms, but nobody claimed the prize.
Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
Oh!!! Oh my gawd, I thought it said eyebrows!!! Hah! Lol
Load More Replies... Chris Freeman 4 years ago
Had a guy in Basic Training who could touch his adam's apple with his tongue. Drill sargeant paraded us around the base having him do this in front of all of his friends....
#43
Most people have little hair swirl that goes clockwise. 8.4% of the population has when that goes counter-clockwise and it's more common than people who are left-handed .
Nugua Nugua 4 years ago (edited)
My husband has a counter-clockwise swirl in his beard. I love it. He hates it (because it's really hard to shave).
Chris Freeman 4 years ago
Baldness took care of my "cow lick" of youth, as well as widow's peak. :)
Lillukka79 4 years ago
I have 2 clockwise and one counter-clockwise. Yes, on most days my hair does what it wants.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Here is an interesting side note - In right pawed dogs who have a chest whorl that goes counterclockwise, studies have shown that they are twice as likely to be successfully trained as "worker" dogs, ie: guide dogs, service dogs, etc.
over it already 4 years ago
I shaved my head last year and found out I have 3! One goes the opposite way. It's a real pain in the tail to shave over bc the hair doesn't want to stand up & be cut.
#44
Everyone has one of these little hair whirls on the back of their head, but 5% of the population actually has two of them.
Weasel Wise 4 years ago
My husband has like six and when his hair grows out he looks like a mad man. 🤣 It also makes it really difficult for me to cut it evenly.
#45
Only 10% of adults have an "outtie" belly button.
Jessica Combrink 4 years ago
I thought this was dependent on the way the doctors clamped or cut the umbilical cords
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
As a 2 times mom: no, medical staff just put a clamp at the end of the cut umbilical cord (they leave maybe about 2 cm). They don't put a knot into it or whatever. The entire umbilical cord bit including the clamp will fall off after a couple of days on its own. As an adult: Even if you have an innie, it can become an outtie for a weeks at the end of a pregnancy and revert back, after the baby is born.
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Artoonist Corine 4 years ago
My husband had hernia surgery and now his belly button is gone. It's sooooo weird.
Donna Leske 4 years ago
My Dad had surgery when he was in WWII, he was left with a small scar = no bellybutton.
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What do you think ?
Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
Just checked and yes I am still very bloody inside so I’ll say that I am still very rare
Bill Evs 4 years ago (edited)
I've got blue eyes, can flare my nostrils, got hitchhikers thumbs and can raise both eyebrows.......however I can't do maths very well so I have no idea what percentage of people those combined traits puts me in with. Can't have everything. Does that make me a superhero? "Slightly different to Average-Man". Marvel, DC give me a call.
ZuluIsraeliAmnesiac 4 years ago
*Everyone reading this post actually trying some of the "actionable" rarities*
Rissie 4 years ago
And you know what?!!! There's only one of you! You're a special snowflake just like everyone else!
13 4 years ago
We really are, aren't we? Happy little unique peas in a pod 😍
Load More Replies... Noel Benavente 4 years ago
I have pectus excavatum, a condition in which a person's breastbone is sunken into his or her chest. (not me in the picture, but it's similar). torax-exca...ae294a.jpg 
Micah<3 4 years ago (edited)
Okay let's list this... Red hair, blue eyes that turn green blue sometimes for some reason, dimples, lots and lots of freckles born with them, ambidextrous, sneeze with my eyes open, fold my tongue, clover thingy with my tongue, whistle, missing the polmaris muscle thing, I can gleek, and funnily enough I had gap teeth that naturally went away lol. I'm a strange cocktail 🤔 Edit: Also just realised while looking in the mirror I have a widows peak lol
More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
100% of the people who read this post fact-checked at least 1 claim.
Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
Just checked and yes I am still very bloody inside so I’ll say that I am still very rare
Bill Evs 4 years ago (edited)
I've got blue eyes, can flare my nostrils, got hitchhikers thumbs and can raise both eyebrows.......however I can't do maths very well so I have no idea what percentage of people those combined traits puts me in with. Can't have everything. Does that make me a superhero? "Slightly different to Average-Man". Marvel, DC give me a call.
ZuluIsraeliAmnesiac 4 years ago
*Everyone reading this post actually trying some of the "actionable" rarities*
Rissie 4 years ago
And you know what?!!! There's only one of you! You're a special snowflake just like everyone else!
13 4 years ago
We really are, aren't we? Happy little unique peas in a pod 😍
Load More Replies... Noel Benavente 4 years ago
I have pectus excavatum, a condition in which a person's breastbone is sunken into his or her chest. (not me in the picture, but it's similar). torax-exca...ae294a.jpg
Micah<3 4 years ago (edited)
Okay let's list this... Red hair, blue eyes that turn green blue sometimes for some reason, dimples, lots and lots of freckles born with them, ambidextrous, sneeze with my eyes open, fold my tongue, clover thingy with my tongue, whistle, missing the polmaris muscle thing, I can gleek, and funnily enough I had gap teeth that naturally went away lol. I'm a strange cocktail 🤔 Edit: Also just realised while looking in the mirror I have a widows peak lol
More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
100% of the people who read this post fact-checked at least 1 claim.
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