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Title: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: corbe on February 04, 2019, 09:35:37 pm
Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait

Ashley Moor
 
11 hrs ago

 
Lots of traits are statistically rare: Left-handedness (just 10 percent of the population!), curly hair (11 percent!), and blond hair (4 percent!), to name a few. But of the more than seven billion people on the planet, only 2 percent can claim to have this one special trait. (To put that in perspective, that’s 140 million people).

So what’s this rare trait only one in fifty of us possess? Green eyes. That’s right, just 2 percent of the world’s population is lucky enough to have ’em, according to World Atlas.

Compare that to other eye colors. For example, some 79 percent of the population has brown eyes, while 8 percent has blue. About 5 percent of people have hazel eyes and another 5 percent have amber eyes. Simply put, green eyes are incredibly unique. (Unique enough, in fact, to give Chris Martin the inspiration that would make Coldplay an overnight success).

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/only-two-percent-of-the-worlds-population-have-this-trait/ar-BBT3LTR?ocid=ientp (http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/only-two-percent-of-the-worlds-population-have-this-trait/ar-BBT3LTR?ocid=ientp)
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Restored on February 04, 2019, 09:38:57 pm
Green eyes here
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 04, 2019, 09:47:12 pm
Green eyes here

Here too.  Where do I need to go to pick up my Two Percenters check?
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: roamer_1 on February 04, 2019, 09:55:06 pm
I can do better than that... My eyes change color from hazel through blue to gray... Mostly they are blue.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: corbe on February 04, 2019, 09:59:04 pm
Sugarloaf Green Eyed Lady Music Video

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdvt2NX-dk#)
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: corbe on February 04, 2019, 10:03:41 pm
   I think my eyes are hazel but my ol lady always tells me their Bloodshot RED.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: RoosGirl on February 04, 2019, 10:08:59 pm
Bitch, please.
(https://www.eyecarecs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rainbow-contact-lens.jpg)
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: bigheadfred on February 04, 2019, 10:34:24 pm
My eyes are a mix. Green\Blue

But they change. When they go green--RUN AWAY
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Gefn on February 04, 2019, 11:14:47 pm
Blue eyed blonde but I’ve been dying my hair auburn

Got tired of blonde so went for red
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Sanguine on February 04, 2019, 11:27:03 pm
I'm blue-eyed and so was my husband.  All three kids are green eyed.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: austingirl on February 05, 2019, 12:15:29 am
My mother told me I was born with blue eyes. They changed to hazel which is mostly green with a gray ring around the iris. When I get emotional, green all the way.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 05, 2019, 12:22:50 am
Didn't Crystal Gayle have a hit years ago with Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Green?
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Victoria33 on February 05, 2019, 12:24:01 am
My mother told me I was born with blue eyes. They changed to hazel which is mostly green with a gray ring around the iris. When I get emotional, green all the way.
@austingirl

I have blue eyes with a small brown dot in one.  An eye doctor said I was lucky not to have one blue and one brown eye.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: skeeter on February 05, 2019, 12:27:38 am
Didn't Crystal Gayle have a hit years ago with Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Green?

No that was Michael Phelps singing Don't it Make My Brown Hair Green.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: austingirl on February 05, 2019, 01:59:28 am
@austingirl

I have blue eyes with a small brown dot in one.  An eye doctor said I was lucky not to have one blue and one brown eye.

@Victoria33
Interesting. I think it must be rare to have two very different colored eyes.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Victoria33 on February 05, 2019, 02:10:00 am
@Victoria33
Interesting. I think it must be rare to have two very different colored eyes.
@austingirl

If I had one blue and one brown, I could have been in the Circus that went from state to state, as the woman with two different colored eyes.  It was Barnum and Bailey circus and I don't remember how they spelled those two names or if the names are exactly right.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2019, 03:49:33 am
@austingirl

If I had one blue and one brown, I could have been in the Circus that went from state to state, as the woman with two different colored eyes.  It was Barnum and Bailey circus and I don't remember how they spelled those two names or if the names are exactly right.

I will always remember "Barnum."  888mouth
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 05, 2019, 04:37:00 am
@austingirl

If I had one blue and one brown, I could have been in the Circus that went from state to state, as the woman with two different colored eyes.  It was Barnum and Bailey circus and I don't remember how they spelled those two names or if the names are exactly right.

I wouldn't be so down on yourself. I'm sure that you have some other attributes that could be a circus act.

Always think positive!!!
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: RoosGirl on February 05, 2019, 04:39:26 am
I know someone that has one blue and one green eye.  I don't remember which is which, but they are different colors because she got shot in the eye with a bb when she was a kid.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 05, 2019, 04:40:38 am
I know someone that has one blue and one green eye.  I don't remember which is which, but they are different colors because she got shot in the eye with a bb when she was a kid.

She in the circus now?
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: RoosGirl on February 05, 2019, 04:53:19 am
She in the circus now?

Yep, you ever heard of Cirque Berzerk?
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 05, 2019, 04:58:23 am
Yep, you ever heard of Cirque Berzerk?

No. Do they take AAA discounts?
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2019, 05:09:00 am
I can do better than that... My eyes change color from hazel through blue to gray... Mostly they are blue.
Same here.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Sighlass on February 05, 2019, 05:19:29 am
Wife has green eyes, mostly I have black eyes. Hope she doesn't read this post.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2019, 05:20:30 am
Wife has green eyes, mostly I have black eyes.
Keep your guard up!
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: libertybele on February 05, 2019, 11:07:01 pm
My eyes are grey with a blue hue to them.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: libertybele on February 05, 2019, 11:10:46 pm
Didn't Crystal Gayle have a hit years ago with Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Green?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHFLcsJsDpw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHFLcsJsDpw#)
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: libertybele on February 05, 2019, 11:12:30 pm
Blue Eyes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiyKeSnSxk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiyKeSnSxk#)
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: libertybele on February 05, 2019, 11:14:26 pm
Lots of songs about blue eyes.  One of my faves "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA644rSZX1A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA644rSZX1A#)
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 11:41:45 pm
Didn't Crystal Gayle have a hit years ago with Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Green?

@Amb. Frank Cannon

Huh? I thought it was "Don't that make my brown eye blue"?
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 11:44:36 pm
@Victoria33
Interesting. I think it must be rare to have two very different colored eyes.

@austingirl

I went to high school with a girl that had one blue eye and one green eye. 

Mine are pretty much black. The Injun blood slipping through. Everybody else in my family had blue eyes except for my grandmother,the Injun,and my mother,who had red hair and green eyes.   The Scots/Irish showing up. I guess it skipped a generation.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 11:46:52 pm
Yep, you ever heard of Cirque Berzerk?

@RoosGirl

I believe my ex is a star performer there.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: austingirl on February 06, 2019, 12:55:48 am
@austingirl

I went to high school with a girl that had one blue eye and one green eye. 

Mine are pretty much black. The Injun blood slipping through. Everybody else in my family had blue eyes except for my grandmother,the Injun,and my mother,who had red hair and green eyes.   The Scots/Irish showing up. I guess it skipped a generation.

The genetic lottery is pretty darn interesting. In my high school days, we were taught a simplified version of inheritance.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: bigheadfred on February 06, 2019, 12:57:56 am
Keep your guard up!

Sounds like a slow learner.
Title: Re: Only Two Percent of the World’s Population Have This Trait
Post by: bigheadfred on February 06, 2019, 01:02:26 am
The genetic lottery is pretty darn interesting. In my high school days, we were taught a simplified version of inheritance.

Right.

Marry a person of the opposite sex.