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October 1 month ago (edited)

Our blonde, blue eyed adopted daughter was contacted by a man claiming to be her bio dad. Not only was he a totally different guy than the one on her birthcertificate, he was also black. So naturally we asked for a dna-test. Lo and behold, he really is her bio dad.

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Emie N. 1 month ago

I'm surprised she had blue eyes. Brown is the dominant gene. I have two friends who are biracial and both have blonde hair and BROWN eyes. I guess genetics really can go in crazy directions.

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smugdruggler 1 month ago

I knew a couple years ago that had two daughters. He was Indian and she was white. They had one blonde white girl and one black haired brown girl. And they were twins!

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Debra Robinson 1 month ago

Cute!

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Karen Krause 1 month ago

It happened near where I live. A white supremacist couple had a black child. Guy claimed the mother had cheated. They both took DNA tests. Apparently, BOTH had hidden secrets in their families. I always wonder how the kid turned out.

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Debra Robinson 1 month ago

Hopefully they're ok...away from the shitweed fukcwits.

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ConstantlyJon 1 month ago

Poor mom, must have been so difficult for her. What a test of a relationship for both of them.

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Bernd Herbert 1 month ago

A prime example of nature showing racists how stupid they are

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago

If two people are outwardly one race, and the baby pops out another race, it's only natural to wonder. The article does say that the woman had a black grandfather that she didn't know about. Had she known, the baby's appearance wouldn't have been a surprise. There's nothing racist in this, and the situation could go for a couple from any race.

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Cuppa tea? 1 month ago

My mom's uncle was head of haematology. This was back in 80's DNA teste weren't really a common thing (socialist CSSR). Anyway - they were doing paternity test and the baby's blood didn't match mother's. Panic ensued - somehow babies were switched. Under some disguise they called all babies born within the certain days to hospital, so they could to further tests. All matched except the same baby and mother. They reached out to main university hospital and laboratory in capital. They done DNA and confirmed that baby is of the mother. In rare cases the blood type from mother is not passed down to baby, so it will not match. He had a saying - is certain it's the mother who's dubious.

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago

Oh goodness! Did the two sets of parents get their genetic offspring back?

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Little Wonder 1 month ago

I used to work with a white woman who had a black brother - same thing, their grandfather was black.

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Nicky 1 month ago

Genetically this makes no sense since black skin, brown eyes, and dark hair are all dominant features from dominant genes.

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago

Do you know what a recessive gene is? Do you know that recessive genes can be carried through generations, even if they aren't expressed? It's very likely that many black people today have at least one white/Caucasian ancestor, especially in countries that had slavery. If a blue-eyed white slave owner raped one of their slaves, the resulting offspring would carry the genes for blue eyes, even though they themselves would not have blue eyes. Then, many generations down the line, a descendant (whose appearance is consistent with them being 100% genetically black) would have children with a blue-eyed white person (or another black person who carries the same recessive genes) and their offspring could have blue eyes. It's literal basic genetics. Dominant doesn't mean that a trait will be 100% dominant ALL the time regardless of anything else.

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TheBlueBitterfly 1 month ago

Yes, but genetics isn't as cut and dried as all that.

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Panda Pandemic 1 month ago

I know it's crazy, but light jeans can dominate and summon instances. My children and me are a prime example of that. The father of my kids is white, but very tan and very dark hair and dark brown eyes. I am very fair skin with naturally blonde hair and hazel eyes. We have three girls her first daughter is light skin and dark hair like him.. but our other two look just like me. My youngest daughter even has the most beautiful slate blue eyes. My jeans definitely dominated his. I think it's actually kind of cool. Because dark jeans usually take over but not in this case.

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Puppy Dancing! 1 month ago

Your statement tells me you do not have a clue about genetics

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Marielle Vos - van Stempvoort 1 month ago

Yes, I was looking for this post, THXS. I've studied biology and this makes no sense. Hoax

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trollingergirl 1 month ago

Best to print this on some T-shirts, when going on a family outing...

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Rigor Moreno 1 month ago

Something to show also to all those who will ask. Specially for valid reason and purpose.

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Jay Cee 2 weeks ago

My late father had a workmate who was Black from an all white family. Turned out an ancestor had married freed a slave woman in the West Indies back in the late 1700s before returning to England. Six generations later the gene resurfaced quite strongly. With the bizarre mindset of the day (UK 1930s) the family decided to call the baby Moses like he'd been found in a basket!

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Stephanie de Blaauw 4 weeks ago

Movie: Skin (2008). Two white people in South-Africa birth a daughter with dark skin, dueing apartheid. Based on a real story

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ZestyBison 1 month ago

Hey, look at that!

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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago

Can't beat the genes

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dave sand 1 month ago

Entirely different subject, but when I peruse BoredPanda I occasionally get windows that pop up that threaten me that if I don't click on their link my computer is doomed. It only happens when I am at BoredPanda. Anyone else? Fun place but if it tolerates this stuff I can be amused elsewhere. Been happening for months.

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Socks Thecate 1 month ago

I have red hair. So many nasty comments to my Mum that the milkman had red hair. My father is Italian and dark hair, brown eyes. Both my parents were white and people still said that.

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marianne eliza 1 month ago

According to Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. African-Americans in the USA with ancestry back to slave days, have approx. 20% European DNA. Those slave masters and overseers were scum rapists.

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Purple_bio 1 month ago

That's crazy but if your partner swears she didn't cheat have some just man, that's sad-

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Cora C 1 month ago

But skin colour is polygenic?

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Rebekah Fuentes 1 month ago

Genes are a fascinating thing.

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The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

My goddaughter has blue eyes and bright red hair; both parents have black hair and brown eyes. Infidelity was never really a question, but apparently her great grandmother was a redhead; somehow it skipped two generations.

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Cammy Mack 1 month ago

Genetics are cool, if this family was in a video game, their baby would be a rare elite character.

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Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 month ago

This is pretty cool, I wasn’t aware this could happen

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Debra Robinson 1 month ago

Super COOL, tho'! Except when someone "has" to be an asshat cuntwad about it.

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PeepPeep the duck 1 month ago (edited)

My boss is the same but opposite, really black parents (I think half Coori and whatever mob is in Adelaide) and she’s porcelain white with gorgeous blue eyes, still has the black curls though. She’s stunning as

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Curry on... 1 month ago (edited)

Imagine growing up and learning your mom didn't know about her black grandfather. Somebody got some 'splaining to do.

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Vanessa Steis 1 month ago

God knows how many dumb questions they will have to endure =(

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Micheala Smith 1 month ago

Yeah if my kid was black, I would be concerned of a baby swap which is possible in America. In England, babies rarely leave their mothers side from the moment they are born

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Kit Black 1 month ago

If I were running this test, I would want all three present and I would draw the blood myself...

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Id row 1 month ago

What are the odds of that happening? It has to be astronomical.

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D. Pitbull 1 month ago

With that very opposite difference, i can understand BOTH parents being all ??? HOW??? Especially if the mother had no idea about her ancestry.

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 month ago

Recessive genes are the ones that skip generations. Not dominant genes. Not sure I buy this one.

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Lauren Wilder 1 month ago

"Really Black"??? Smh

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anon , Polina Tankilevitch / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding So, not forensics (entirely), and not me. I had a professor in college that was pursuing her doctorate while working at the Mayo Clinic.

Year after year, a man came in to be tested for a disorder/disease that [ended] his father at that very hospital. Year after year, he tested negative. But every year, he got tested in an effort to stay ahead of it. Because, genetics.

One year, he tested negative as usual, but the staff had an idea. They cracked open the archives, dug his father's file out & put it next to his. DNA wasn't even close.

Poor guy has no idea his late father was never his biological father at all. And the hospital has no right or obligation to inform him.

Final score:

180points

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XenoMurph 1 month ago

No obligation, but come on, tell the poor dude. Or refuse his money for the test at least. "We can't in all honesty take your money because there is no risk factor here. No, we can't tell you why."

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anon , Blue Bird / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding In doing my MSc in forensic pathology and anthropology, there is a final practical exam component. The examiner hauled in a large cardboard box. The type/size you would store documents in.

When dumped on the table, it looked like a broken plant pot. No piece was bigger than 1.5 inches diameter. He then goes "could you find all the pieces of *example of bone* and reconstruct it please?

Turns out it was a ~16 year old girl whose boyfriend had caved her head in with a stone and cut her into tiny bits before burying her in a field.

Only reason she was found was because her decomposing flesh caused the plants right hear her body to be oddly large and lush for a dry forgotten field.

Final score:

132points

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Earthquake903 Premium 1 month ago (edited)

Scumbag boyfriend. Eta: Sorry if this comment isn't venomous enough for some of you. Judging by the comments below, there are many dissatisfied comment readers. But I've gone figuratively nuclear in my comments on bad people before, like Dennis Rader, and I got mocked for it. So, it appears some comment readers just can't be satisfied.

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anon , Jonathan Borba / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I attended an autopsy where the subject being examined had one large kidney that extended to both sides of his body instead of having 2, one on each side of his body.

Final score:

119points

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Serial pacifist 1 month ago

Are you kidneying me?! (I’ll see myself out).

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anon , Donny Fuego / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I only just started here so what’s shocking to me is probably super minor but i had a decedent that died and was found with multiple bottles of isopropyl alcohol around her with straws in them. She literally was sipping isopropyl alcohol through straws. It obviously [ended] her, but i cannot get past the thought of that. How serious of an addiction do you have that doing something like that makes sense? Just the thought of doing that makes my stomach turn.

Final score:

107points

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linda collins 1 month ago

Nurse here. It is quite common for patients with a drink problem to drink the alcohol spray or gel while they are in hospital.

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gritwoodser , National Cancer Institute / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding My friend's wife works in one. Getting blood samples from babies that tested positive for [illegal substances] was apparently fairly common, but the most recent shocking discovery was that the building's plumbing was done in such a way that chemical disposal could back flow into the water fountain drain, and management didn't really care.

Final score:

102points

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Bookworm 1 month ago

Tell the local news, I bet they'd care

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InjuredAtWork , Louis Reed / unsplash (nott the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I was working in the lab late one night, well one thing led to another and we

DID THE MASH WE DID THE MONSTER MASH.

Final score:

99points

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Bookworm 1 month ago

It was a graveyard smash!

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cjmd3 , Raphael Nogueira / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding Years ago when I was working as a DNA analyst, our lab received a limp caesar salad from a local restaurant, take out box and all. Apparently, the guy who ordered the salad said that it was served with blood in it. The restaurant owner said not possible and that the customer must have bled in it so that he wouldn't have to pay. The customer then decided to promptly bring his salad to our lab along with his DNA sample to prove that it wasn't his. Turns out that it was and he unknowingly bled into his salad somehow.

Oh, there was also that one time a dad sent in a bunch of his daughter's soiled feminine hygiene products in to the lab to test for semen.

Most shocking thing though was the time a bunch of DNA samples came. To make a long story short: one large vehicle, lots of [illegal substances], two strung out horny couples, one condom being passed back and forth (yes...flipped inside out), and two pregnant couples uncertain about the paternity of each baby.

Final score:

99points

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Beak Hookage 1 month ago (edited)

Fathers obsessing over their daughter's sexual activities are some of the biggest sick creeps on earth. I mean really.

257points

nryporter25 , Testalize.me / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding Not a scientist, but my last job involved scientific testing equipment and sending results to the legal team of the company. Using an XRF gun I found that almost 50 percent of this large companies inventory contains above the legally allowed amount of lead, and various other harmful chemicals. (At a company whose product most people will touch on a daily basis). The legal team sure had their work cut out for them.

Final score:

91points

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Bewitched One 1 month ago

Uh what company

39points

jablair51 , Public Domain Pictures / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#10

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I was working as a scanning electron microscope technician for the R&D branch of a private company when the head scientist gave me a unknown sample to cut up and investigate. There were a bunch of layers of paint on it and he wanted to know what elements were present. Most of the layers showed up as normal elements (O, Al, Cr, etc) but one layer had a peak at Pr (Praseodymium) which is so rare that I forgot that it was even an element. I thought I was going crazy but my engineer double-checked it and it was definitely there. Turns out that Praseodymium is used in certain military grade paints.

Final score:

90points

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CF 1 month ago

From wiki: "Praseodymium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pr and the atomic number 59. It is the third member of the lanthanide series and is considered one of the rare-earth metals. It is a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal, valued for its magnetic, electrical, chemical, and optical properties. It is too reactive to be found in native form, and pure praseodymium metal slowly develops a green oxide coating when exposed to air."..Some uses include "yellow-orange "Praseodymium Yellow" stain for ceramics, which is a solid solution in the zircon lattice. This stain has no hint of green in it; by contrast, at sufficiently high loadings, praseodymium glass is distinctly green rather than pure yellow." Can also be used to make powerful magnets and certain types of welder's goggles.

91points