Ah ha... I found this list of fun facts... about RED HEADS XD lol
Approximately 1-2% of humans, or about two in 100 people in the world, have red hair
The ancient Greeks believed that redheads would turn into vampires after they died
The most rare hair color in humans is red
During the Middle Ages, a child with red hair was thought to be a sure fire sign that the wife had cheated on her husband. The child was thought of as unclean.
Red hair doesn’t gray as much as other hair colors
During the witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, many women were burned at the stake as witches merely because they had red hair
People with red hair have twice the risk of developing Parkinson’s Disease
Mark Twain once quipped that “while the rest of the human race are descended from monkeys, redheads derive from cats
Hitler reportedly banned the marriage of redheads in order to prevent “deviant offspring
Red hair is a recessive trait, which means that a child must inherit one red hair gene from each parent. Recessive traits often come in pairs, and redheads are more likely than other people to be left handed
Some scholars speculate that because Adam was from “red earth” and the Hebrew word for “red” is adom, that Adam was a redhead
Scholars note that redheads have influenced history out of proportion to their numbers. Famous redheads include Roman emperor Nero, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, the ancient god of love Aphrodite, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Oliver Cromwell, Emily Dickinson, Antonio Vivaldi, Thomas Jefferson, Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Twain, James Joyce, Winston Churchill, Malcolm X, Galileo, and King David
Satan is often portrayed as a redhead most likely because red was viewed as the color of lust and moral degradation
In Egypt, redheads were buried alive as sacrifices to the god Osiris
“Gingerphobia” is a fear of redheads. “Gingerism” is the bullying or prejudice of redheads
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