AMAZING FACTS ABOUT COLOURS THAT YOU NEVER SAW COMING
Added on: 27th Aug 2016
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.
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