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In honor of the approximately 35 redheads running around here, and because I got bored the other day, I present these fun facts:

Did you know that.....?

-Scarlet tresses were long considered the mark of the devil: because the color was associated with menstruation, red-haired women were seen as unclean and taboo

- Believed to be lethal, fat taken from a redheaded man was used in concocting poisons during the seventeenth century

- Both Emily Dickenson and Edna St. Vincent were redheads.

- Redheads require 20 percent more anesthesia to put them under than brunettes or blondes.

- Less than 4 percent of the world's population has red hair (and about 3 percent of them live here)

- Also, in Africa, non-Caucasian albino redheads who live in countries like Cameroon, are subject to ill treatment by superstitious neighbors

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-Scarlet tresses were long considered the mark of the devil: because the color was associated with menstruation, red-haired women were seen as unclean and taboo

I should tell my mother this. Perhaps she will stop insisting that precognition is a gift from God.

Of course, perhaps not. She still asks me if Doug speaks Aramaic..

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She's still at that? Gah.

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Only every once in a while. I think maybe she does it now because she knows it bothers me.