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Aug. 14th, 2005 11:17 amIn 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
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
