The conventional wisdom may be that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes....but Jane Russell, the dark haired beauty who stared with blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe in that 1953 movie classic might beg to disagree... and she would be right ! 

A study found that men, in fact, overwhelmingly prefer brunettes over blondes. The 2,000 men were

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polled by social network site Badoo to find out the features they find most attractive in the opposite sex. A third of all those polled - 33.1 percent - said they find brown hair the most attractive, while 28.6 said they liked black - making up a total of 59.7 percent over all preferring dark-haired girls. Those gentlemen who do prefer blondes made up just 29.5 percent of the vote, while redheads came in as the least popular with men, taking just 8.8 percent of the vote. (Daily Mail)

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