There are 158 million of these. What are they?

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Answer: Redheads

Clues: “Strand” and “Ginger”

Today is National Redhead Day!

Did you know even if both parents don’t have red hair, they can still make a ginger baby?  That’s because red hair is an inherited trait, but it’s recessive.

Redheads make up roughly 1% or 2% of the global population, which means there could be up to 158 million redheads walking the Earth.

The highest concentration of redheads is found in Scotland and Wales, which is around 10%.

The rarest combination of hair and eye color are red hair and blue eyes.  It only occurs in 0.17% of people on Earth.

Redheads produce more vitamin D but unfortunately because of the pigment of their skin, their risk for skin cancer is greater, too.

And in 2022 a study was done, and it found that redheads had more sex.

(Reader’s Digest)