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TIL That lobsters can be various colours due to the pigment astaxanthin, being blue or yellow after binding with some proteins. About 1 in 2 million lobsters are blue and 1 in 30 million are yellow. However, the rarest is a white lobster, with the chances of seeing one only being 1 in 100 million.

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