Another joke: Blonds may be extinct by 2022

In the end, it seems it was just another dumb blond joke. The WHO, UN’s health arm, insisted on Tuesday that despite media reports to the contrary, it had not conducted such a study. This despite reports citing WHO research stating that natural blonds would become extinct by 2202.

Such reports had appeared on CNN and ABC News and in London Daily Mail. But WHO said it has never conducted research on the topic. WHO ‘‘has no knowledge of how these reports originated but would like to stress that we have no opinion on the future existence of blonds,’’ it said in a statement released here.

The supposed WHO study predicted that the last blond on earth would be in Finland, home to highest concentration of true blonds. (Reuters)