"CravenLestat;c-16374632" wrote:
But of course chose a ginger because fun facts time
The place on earth with the most redheads is Scotland at 13% of the population
Most redheads are left handed
Redheads cannot get grey hair when aging
Redheads have less hair than any other person
The rarest combo in the world is a blue eyed redhead,true fact only one percent of redheads have blue eyes and only 1.7 percent of the worlds population has red hair.So you are more likely to get struck by lightning than to meet a blue eyed redhead in real life.
@CravenLestat Not to go all stats nerd on you, but red hair and blue eyes aren't completely independent of each other. Though not technically linked (they're on different chromosomes), they obviously exist at greater frequencies in some populations than others. (When was the last time you met a ginger East Asian?) I'm not sure what stats say that only one percent of redheads have blue eyes, as there's a high correlation between red hair and light eye colors, mostly due to overall population genetics, as in, the populations that produce redheads in any significant quantities also tend to have relatively few brown-eyed people. For example, some numbers I found say that 63% of the population in Scotland has blue eyes, and 11% has red hair, so even if there were no further correlation (i.e. certain communities with higher percentages of both), 7% of Scots would have both traits.
I don't know about being struck by lightning, but I have five (!) true gingers on one side of my family. They all have (had) bright orange hair, light to medium blue eyes, lots of freckles, and a complete inability to tan in the sun. None of them are lefties, though.