color, n.Trivia

The average person can see up to ten million colors

It's impossible for us to imagine colors we have never seen before.

The sun is actually white, but the Earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.

Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.

Women tend to be better at discerning shades of colors while men tend to be better at tracking fast-moving objects, and discerning detail from a distance. These adaptations may possibly be linked to our hunter-gatherer past.

Women who are 'tetrachromatic', (meaning they have four cones instead of three) can experience 100 million colors (The rest of us 3-coned people can see 10 million colors)

Goldfish get their color from light --- If you keep one in a dark room it will eventually turn white.

Blue is the world's most popular color

Black and yellow are the two colors with the strongest impact

Yellow is apparently the easiest color to see from a distance, which is why taxis are generally yellow

Some colors can induce hunger. This is true for red, yellow and orange

color is a game of contrasts --- black on yellow are the two colors with the strongest impact

The owl is the only bird that can see the color blue

The Golden Gate Bridge is painted a color officially called "International Orange."

Colors of the Spectrum "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain"R – red, O – orange, Y – yellow, G – green, B – blue I – indigo, V – violet

Color exists partly in the brain.

People with blue eyes don't have blue-colored pigment. Their eyes are blue for the same reason that oceans and the sky are blue, scattered light.

Eyes which are two different colors are the result of a condition called 'heterochromia'.