1. Research shows that blue is by fact the most popular colour.
2. Only 2% of all the people in the world have green eyes. However brown is the most common eye colour in the world.
3. It's been proven that women see more shades of orange and red than men.
4. Crayola's 'flesh' colour was renamed peach in 1962.
5. The most common colour of highlighter is yellow because it doesn't leave a shadow on the page when photocopied.
6. The sun is actually white. When viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears in its true colour of white. When viewed from a low altitude atmospheric rendering makes it look a yellowish colour.
7. There are two colours that are to complex for the human eye called 'impossible colours.
8. Cheddar cheese is only orange because they dye it.
9. The red dust in the atmosphere scatters red light, so anyone looking around at that time of day would see a red sky.
10. In the 1880's, margarine used to have to be dyed pink in order to prevent confusion between butter substitutes and real butter.
Sorry it took so long to update I will try 2 do it more frequently . Hope you enjoyed he chapter. What was your favorite fact?
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