In Turkmenistan, colors themselves are considered state enemies. Only white cars are allowed in the capital. Cars that are not white are forbidden from the streets of Ashgabat, the non-white vehicles taken from the owners as hostages and forcibly painted white no matter what.
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In Thailand, each day of the week has…
In Thailand, each day of the week has a color and a god who protects it. In the past, people would wear the color assigned to each day. Now most people just use their personal lucky color which is based on the day they were born.
Isaac Newton set out…
Isaac Newton set out the colors of the rainbow we memorize today. However, he originally didn’t include orange or indigo. He only added them later because of his occult belief that there must be 7 separate colors, just like there are 7 notes in a musical scale and 7 days of the week.
The town of Larkhall, Scotland, hates the…
The town of Larkhall, Scotland, hates the color green so much that their Subway is painted black instead.
Pantone 448 C, the “world’s ugliest color” according…
Pantone 448 C, the “world’s ugliest color” according to research, is used by many European countries on their tobacco products to dissuade people from smoking.
A woman from Northern England has 4 functioning…
A woman from Northern England has 4 functioning color cones (most of us have only 3) and that due to this she can see 99 million more colors than the average person.
Some humans can be tetrachromats, which gives them the ability…
Some humans can be tetrachromats, which gives them the ability to see more colors than a normal human, like Concetta Antico, an Australian artist who can see 100 times more colors than a regular human.
There are only 2 countries in the world whose flags contain neither…
There are only 2 countries in the world whose flags contain neither red, white, nor blue: Jamaica and Mauritania.
The reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”” for hair color is because English…
The reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”” for hair color is because English didn’t differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.
Purple is known as a ‘royal’ color because back when they relied only on natural dyes…
Purple is known as a ‘royal’ color because back when they relied only on natural dyes, purple came from sea snails and was the hardest dye to extract and produce so only royals could afford it. To put into perspective just how expensive it is, an ounce of gold is currently worth around $1,200. An ounce of Tyrian purple dye is worth roughly $100,000.