15 Medical Cases that have baffled doctors

Oct 2, 2016 8:51 PM

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1. A man lost about 50% - 75% of his brain due to hydrocephalus (water in the brain) but still led a normal life. Doctors believe that the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the brain remapped itself to function despite the loss of mass.

2. This photo (left) of Twins Brielle and Kyrie jackson is called the "rescuing hug." When Brielle couldn't breathe and was turning blue. The nurse broke the protocol and put them in same incubator as a last resort. Kyrie put her arm around her sister, who then began to stabilize.

3. A guy diagnosed with cancer was told he had 6 months to live, outlived his doctors who predicted his imminent death back in the 1970s. He almost lived four decades after a lung cancer diagnosis. He died 98/102 years old.

4. After Two Days Of Cannabis Treatment, This Nine-Year-Old Autistic Boy Spoke For The First Time.

5. Couple's priceless reaction when they find out they are having quadruplets at odds of 70 MILLION to one after eight years trying to get pregnant.

6. Brryan Jackson's father injected him with HIV-tainted blood when he was 31 months old in a bid to kill him to avoid paying child support. By the time Brryan was 5, he was diagnosed with AIDS, and given only a few months to live. Now, the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.

7. In the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight - A college student five years later.

8. One twin from a premature birth was declared clinically dead, came back to life after laying on his mother's chest for two hours.

9. A woman who hasn't been able to see since she was 11 years old had her sight restored after an accident in which she hit her head on a coffee table.

10. A man spent 67 years of his life stereo blind, unable to experience depth perception. It was only after having to pay for 3D glasses to watch the movie Hugo that his brain suddenly clicked and he was able to experience three dimensional vision.

11. 74 year old patient miraculously had an unexpected recovery from skin cancer without any treatment when amputation was the best option according to doctors.

12. A man survives a 47-floor plunge

13. Paraplegic man suffered a spider bite and started walking again.

14. A black, Nigerian couple living in the U.K. gave birth to a white, blonde, blue-eyed baby that they call the "miracle baby".

15. A Polish man woke up from 19-year coma

#9 Cognitive recalibration. "I hit you really hard in the head."

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I think we're gonna need some snopes up in here.

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It's stuff like this that make people believe they don't need medical treatment for serious diseases. * angry face *

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I had been waiting for it!!!

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#6...that dad. Fucking horrific.

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Sources, please? So many of these seem like pure hokum

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Which ones are you trust the least? Some are pretty suspicious though

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#14 Mom "Oh what.....oh my what a miracle!" Probably.

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Seems Nmachi Ihegboro's parents are keeping her privacy intact, good for them. http://africancelebs.com/black-parents-give-birth-white-baby

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Can someone explain how someone died 98/102 years old?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In the source of OP's source, I found this: "Moraitis, who didn’t remember his exact age, either 98 or 102 [...]"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe he died in 1998 at the age of 102?

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So where do I aim to knock out depression and anxiety?

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Around the neck using a rope.

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#13 hopped right the fuck up when he saw that monster on his leg

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Yeah dude, brown recluse spiders are NOT a joke. I knocked one off my hand a couple weeks ago, bout pissed myself.

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Can't you read, the guy without legs had his mobility restored by a spider bite. Now he's Spiderman.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Apparently your brain work like an old television. Can't see? Smack it a bit

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Ahem, citation needed, you reposting scumlord.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I call bullshit on #1, just a few minutes of searching brought me to the original article, it was retracted for concerns about the images.

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"Miracle baby"

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I was hoping for a comment like this. Lol

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Those are the eyes of a man who needs answers to see if that baby is his.

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I'm sure he got a DNA test already..

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The father of #6...fuck that guy. fuck him so hard.

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Well I wouldn't since he proabably has hiv himself... jk yea seriously he needs to suffer

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Rusty nail bat can't get aids.

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For fucks sake, 31 months is over two and a half years old. STOP SAYING 31 MONTHS. The kid isn't a baby anymore.

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Thank you. I came to the comments looking for this.

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Imagine being blind then hitting your head and being like

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So if I have a neurodevelopemental disorder I should shoot myself in the head in order to cure it? Thanks, Imgur! You've made my life easier

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It's an express lobotomy.

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OCD is not a neurodevelopmental disorder. Autism is, however.

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Well I tried to check what OCD is categorized as from Wiki and there was a source related to OCD in there, but yeah it's a mental disorder.

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#10 is me, 'cept I never clicked. Also found out when trying to watch a 3D movie, after already starting career as an artist... in film. lol

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His name was Bruce Bridgeman, a vision scientist from UCSC, if you wanna look up info on the "click" that he thought changed him

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Thanks, will do!

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He was my professor!

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Mine too! He was a good guy. He passed away a couple months ago : /

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh no, I didn't know. He was a good professor im sorry to hear that.

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15 cases that baffled doctors according to a website which sited no sources...

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#5 is not really baffling. Pregnancy was due to usual fertility treatments. Mother had 4 girls - the Gardner Quads. They turn 2 in Dec.

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yeah that treatment they use isn't rare to have a bunch

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What's really baffling is how OP could mistake a person for a couple. I'm not seeing the father's reaction at all.

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I'm pretty sure I could explain away #'s 4,5,10,12,13, and 14 as baffling for average doctors. #6 worries me only because I would suspect(1/

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an uncatalogued morphology of HIV. Best wishes to that dude.

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"31 months old" Some people just want to watch the world burn.

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No sources?

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Op its kind of a bot, also

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Search news archives. It's not like it's a story about someone shitting diamond-studded gold nuggets while they were alone or something...

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The couple that had 4 girls in a 70 million odds can be found on FB - A Miracle Unfolding is their page.

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My aunt's husband's sister's son heard it from his boss's daughter's friend. They work for Google or somewhere.

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Fuck your sources

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+1

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whoah whoah can I uh ...get you a snickers or something? Maybe some drugs?

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Many of these cases seem easy to explain but the reality is in the case specifics which are missing due to lack of sources.

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I found them all on google by just searching for what op wrote..

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#1 actually went on to host a reality show, then run for president. A side effect of his condition gives him an orange hue.

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Hahaha

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Huehuehue

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Jajajaja

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That 47th floor plunge.......care to elaborate????

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Yeah seriously, the last few had no explanations

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was this the window washer that fell when the thingy he was standing on broke? i feel like i saw it on a 1000 ways to die. and this was the

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survive story they sometime did.

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He fell from the 47th floor to the 46th and miraculously survived.

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Precious, underrated comment

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10 years ago (deleted Oct 3, 2016 2:21 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

it's a joke

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You're a joke

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The original caption lead us to believe that he fell from the 47th floor to the ground. Not as astounding but still impressive.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Some of these are not baffling to doctors they're just very, very unlikely. Like #5 the little girls are adorable though

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Yeah, I came down here to say just that, coming from an actual quadruplet who is also an identical twin to one of the siblings. (1/2)

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We are also all male. I find it so hilarious when I tell people about how all 4 of us are quadruplets as they stand there in disbelief (2/?)

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like "What? Really? No way!" and I just sit there as if it's no big deal because it's just normal to me. (3/3)

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That is really cool though! Overwhelming for your parents I'd imagine though, especially at first!

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98/102?

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I think if he had lived to 102, it would have been 4 decades since his diagnosis. Hence OP says "almost four decades"

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I thought the same thing; maybe they didn't have records of his birth year and that's an estimate of his age?

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5/7

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I get that reference

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Blood Pressure. I see why he passed away.

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It's a rating system, duh. Some people say 4/5, others 5/7, @OP says 98/102.

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49/51 you have to reduce

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the new 5/7?

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Or he died in 1998, age 102. Just a suggestion.

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That camera resolution and colorization tho.

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Maybe he was 98 and died in 19102

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0.96078

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This number would be more accurate to the doctors diagnostic. Which would mean that OP was just making fun of this poor man.

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Is that guy's dad in prison for life??

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And the judge told him to "burn in hell"

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And where the hell did he get aids blood?

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Yeah, it's unforgivable to give a kid a name like "Brryan".

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Yes the Judge sentenced him to life in prison describing him as one of the worst criminals possible. 1/2.

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i know right. black parents white baby but it wasnt stolen

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Damn

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Brutal.

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Albinism

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Well, that would be one way to avoid child support payments I guess?

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So by killing his so he couldn't have to pay child support?!

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Spending life in prison seems another way to avoid paying up.

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My ex's dad actually purposefully went to jail for a while to avoid paying his child support. Some people.

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Jesus... most people just pay for new identities or leave the fucking country. Where would he even find an HIV-infected syringe anyway?

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Should be death penalty.

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Should have his blood replaced with one that's not his type so he suffers slowly. In the last few minutes stop his heart while conscious.

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I like your thinking

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His son Brryan Jackson has forgiven his father despite years of AIDS medication that destroyed 70% of his hearing. 2/2.

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Forgiveness can be more destructive than vengeance.

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Now he has Hearing AIDS.

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Shut up

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You're just jealous you didn't think of that first.

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Macklin, you sonofabitch!

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SWEET MOTHER OF GOD. This is one of the best comments I've ever seen

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Oh no you did not...

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Thats awful. I love it.

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Oh lord

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WHAT? That's crazy. Does the dad have AIDS? How did he even accomplish this?

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His father was a blood transfusion specialist. He crept into the hospital room & injected his own 11 month son with tainted blood.

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That's the kind of person I'd have trouble not to just dunk axe into, given the chance.

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Now THAT'S a sociopath.

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What a terrible person

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Back in 1992 that was a death sentence & they expected son to be dead by age 5 but fate/medicine/God had other plans.

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That Nigerian deserves a metal for convincing that poor man that the white baby she gave birth to was a "miracle".

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Oh my god his expression is priceless

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i believe scientist were saying it might be how white people came about. a glitch in the DNA

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Ore does he?

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this makes Nr. 2 after "virgin" Mary convincing Joseph, that she received the child from God ...

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Actually unless the mom's parents or even grandparents had blue eye's, the odds of that being her son are statistically impossible (albino?)

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Nope. The basic chart you saw in bio isn't quite accurate either, but even with that you could carry it for generations

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Even if the dad was white the kid would look like milky coffee, not just milk

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not always

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She doesn't look like the virgin Mary I was told about...

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Medal

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I know :(

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It worked for Mary on Joseph

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They probably stole it.

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Definitely. Id give her a lead weight or an iron ingot for starters.

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He deserves a metal what?

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+1 for screen name

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could be albino

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http://nypost.com/2010/07/21/blond-bombshell/ When that child is older I need video of it saying "I grew up a poor black child".

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There are DNA tests that can be done and I'm sure were lol

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A vasectomy doesn't stop pregnancy, it just changes the colour of the skin of the baby

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I mean... Vasectomy doesn't stop pregnancy. I know a few people who got pregnant. Some swimmers just keep swimming.

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Fyi guy was tested by doctor in the cases I know personally. Found to be successful surgery, yet also not. Weird stuff.

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Except then the baby should be light black, not pure white. See: Obama skin color.

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not always

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Or a religion. It's worked before.

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Look in his eyes, he knows.

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Look in HER eyes lol

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Had his wife been unfaithful then 7/8 odds of a baby with black hair & brown eyes. They claim he is the father though with features of both.

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I don't know if it's possible in this case but at least in cases with 2 white parents, it's very much possible (albeit rare) (1/2)

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To have a black child, due to recessive genes I'm not sure if it works the same way vice versa though.

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Skin, hair and eye colour are all determined by a bunch of genes and their different mutations. You can get almost anything on the range

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I am assuming that a DNA test was done to prove he was the father. Such is possible if one of their own parents were white European.

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They don't look mulatto, though. Most likely just albinism.

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Lol how do you think white people got here in the first place.

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Natural selection preferring lower skin melanin levels in areas closer to the poles?

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mutations must occur before new traits can be naturally selected

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Also, if she had sex with a white man, it doesn't mean the baby has a high probability of looking like that. Genetics.

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Hate to be that guy but "medal" not "metal"

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I know, I saw that when I came back, but it was too late.

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+1. Be that guy so I can breathe easy.

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No he received some copper as a reward

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14 shillings to be exact

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If a white couple had a black baby I doubt it would be called a miracle.

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that would really confuse the police, "can we shoot him or not?"

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Actually, my step brother in law And his wife are white. Their daughter is black. DNA test at the hospital confirmed biological child.

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Would you and your family be interested in purchasing some bridges?

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Bullshit, post pics or GTFO

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I don't know if its still PC to say, but I was told it was called "Throwing a black" & it wasn't unheard of. Would be a big surprise though!

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Actually, there was a case of this, a lesbian couple got artificially insemination and they mixed up the donor, white couple had 1/2

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coloured daughter. Sued sperm bank for negligence ( dedicated loving parents but it was a shock )

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Again biological white M+F donors. Not a lesbian couple getting a mixed up sperm delivery. DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW SCIENCE WORKS!!!!

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The statement was "If a white couple had a black baby" I see your point, but there's no need to lose your shit.

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