The Most Inbred People Of All Time | Random Thursday

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  @andinkify · 4 years ago (edited)

  Interesting how constant inbreed can lead to impotence (in Charles II's case), it's like nature telling the family tree "look, this is as far as you can go"

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• DR

  @Drewster195 · 5 years ago

  My parents are related, and there really is an unwarranted stigma attached to it. I mean Im perfectly healthy, I have all 12 fingers with the relevant webbing.

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• DR

  @drew8256 · 6 years ago

  When your family tree is a telephone pole, you got problems.

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• MO

  @motionless_horizon · 3 years ago

  My parents are related, and we only found out when I was 15 after me getting genetic testing for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I tested positive for a type that is extremely rare, there’s ~9 documented cases in the world. When we found this out, my parents got tested because the likelihood of unrelated people both being carriers of the mutation and having a kid who has it, is extremely low. Turns out my great grandfather had a mistress who he had five kids with. One being my dad’s mom, while my mom’s mom was from the marriage he originally had. Confusing I know. They never met, never even knew each other existed, but growing up in a small community it was bound that they would meet eventually. And now I’m here! I don’t blame my parents, they didn’t know. Nobody knew. We only found out about the infidelity after my parents got ancestry testing. It’s wild

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• SP

  @spraypain_t4369 · 6 years ago

  Imagine going down in history as a "genetic catastrophe"

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• KA

  @karllued · 7 years ago

  So all the Smurfs are blue because there's only one Smurfette?

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• TS

  @tsgtammo1 · 4 years ago

  My mother’s family is from Hazard County KY. (She was born in 1940) She has told the story of being 10-12 years old and being in the General Store in Heinman, KY and one of the “Blue People” coming in to purchase supplies. &nbsp; My Grandmother told her not to stare, and as she recalled the man was a dusty light blue shade. She told that story for years and until the internet nobody really believed it. <br><br>She is from a family of 9 children and she is the only one that ever saw one of the Blue People.

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• MA

  @magpie.314 · 6 years ago (edited)

  &quot;There were only so many royal families to go around&quot;<br><b>banjo riff in harpsichord</b><br>&quot;The Egyptian royal family was <i>super</i> inbred&quot;<br><b>banjo riff in sitar</b>

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• DA

  @DasIllu · 7 years ago

  It&apos;s called bloodline, not bloodcircle, for a reason!

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• EK

  @ekss · 5 years ago

  The fact that &quot;for a majority of human history that people in charge were also the most genetically inferior&quot; seriously blows my mind

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• OF

  @OfficialBritta · 3 years ago

  I also turned into a blue person for a short time, although I have NO relation to the family of Blue People. Acute Methemoglobinemia (meaning not genetic) can also be caused by certain medications, such as local anesthetics. I found out the hard way that I am apparently very sensitive to these drugs and was treated with IV Methylene Blue as well. It happened over the course or an hour or two after a procedure I had &amp; I started to turn blue and lose consciousness. It was extremely scary for both me and my parents. Once the toxicologist figured out what was wrong with me, they brought in all the medical students because it was such a rare thing to get to see in person. My blood was only carrying about 50% of the normal amount of oxygen. Methemoglobinemia basically makes your red blood cells less “sticky” so they’re not able to bind with and carry oxygen molecules as they normally would. <br>The really interesting part that no one warned me about is that when you inject something dark blue into your veins, the first time you pee after that, it’s dark green! So I thought I was dying all over again. Funny now, not so funny back then! It took several days for that to work it’s way out of my system but the Methylene Blue literally saved my life and worked very quickly once they figured it out. That part took hours.

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• FR

  @frostyupnorth · 6 years ago

  &quot; If we get divorced does that mean we ain&apos;t brother and sister no more?&quot;

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