AMAZING FACTS ABOUT COLOURS THAT YOU NEVER SAW COMING

THE SUN IS ACTUALLY WHITE WHEN VIEWED

FROM SPACE. THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE

MAKES IT APPEAR TO BE YELLOW

IMPOSSIBLE COLOURS, ALSO CALLED FORBIDDEN

COLOURS, ARE COLOURS THAT ARE TOO

COMPLEX FOR THE HUMAN EYE

MOST PEOPLE DREAM IN COLOUR, BUT FOR

THOSE OF YOU WHO GREW UP WATCHING A

MONOCHROME TELEVISION (PROBABLY NOT MANY),

YOU MOST LIKELY ALSO DREAM IN BLACK AND WHITE

HORSES HAVE THE LARGEST EYES OF ANY LAND

ANIMAL AND THEY HAVE EXCELLENT NIGHT VISION.

UNFORTUNATELY, THEIR VISION IS ONLY

DICHROMATIC, MEANING THEY CAN ONLY

SEE TWO COLOURS

COLOUR-BLIND PEOPLE TEND TO HAVE

BETTER NIGHT VISION

GERMANY'S FORMULA ONE COLOUR IS SILVER

BECAUSE WHEN ONE OF THEIR CARS WAS

OVERWEIGHT IN 1934, THEY SCRAPED OFF THE

PAINT. THE CAR WENT ON TO WIN THE RACE

AND THE COLOUR STUCK

NIGHT VISION GOGGLES USE GREEN PHOSPHOR

BECAUSE THE HUMAN EYE CAN SEE MORE SHADES

OF GREEN THAN ANY OTHER COLOUR

THE MATADOR'S CAPE DOESN'T NEED TO BE RED

BECAUSE THE BULL IS COLOUR BLIND. IT IS SAID

THAT THE CAPE IS RED IN ORDER TO HIDE THE

BLOOD SPLATTER FROM THE AUDIENCE

(WHEN THE BULL IS FINALLY KILLED)

FERNANDO PATOLSKY, AN ISRAELI CHEMIST,

INVENTED A "DATE RAPE STRAW". IT CHANGES

COLOUR WHEN YOU PUT IT IN A DRINK

CONTAINING DATE RAPE DRUGS.