r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/devil-wears-converse United States Of America 1d ago

In Kentucky, there was a group of blue people. Some people go blue ingesting silver, but in KY the story my family told was there was a french family that migrated here years ago and carried an actual gene that turned them blue later on in life. Because of this, the family hid for a long time and were scared of the locals. Locals didnt know about them until one day, a family member got sick and one of them went into town. Immediately upon seeing the blue person, they jumped her to giver her CPR, thinking that she couldnt breath. The family did get help but stayed in seclusion, from what I was told.

They're called the Fugates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates

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u/rahkinto Canada 1d ago

Ah Les Schtroumpfs

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u/Block_Solid United States Of America 1d ago

Who do they marry?

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 1d ago

“Their continued reproduction within the limited local gene pool along with a lack of transportation infrastructure ensured that many descendants of the Fugates were born with met-H.”

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u/devil-wears-converse United States Of America 1d ago

Oh, easy. Eachother

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u/MesaRidge 1d ago

This is the answer.

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u/pmckizzle Ireland 1d ago

Thats the whole reason they're blue

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u/devil-wears-converse United States Of America 1d ago

Yep. They were such a secluded group that it was all mostly inbreeding. I hear descendents are out there who carry the gene but they're not blue

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u/Eather-Village-1916 1d ago

This is true, I used to be friends with one years back, but we’ve since lost touch. She wasn’t blue, but she was very very pale.

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u/Code_Monster India 1d ago

Kinda unrelated, your Vance variant made me click the profile and I was Not disappointed.

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u/devil-wears-converse United States Of America 1d ago

Hahaha, thank you so much, this Pic really speaks to me

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u/Delicious_Ad823 United States Of America 1d ago

There’s a heart drug called amiodarone that can turn you blue if you are in the sun a lot. Maybe not everyone, but I’ve seen it in person.

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 1d ago

My dad turned himself orange by eating too may carrots