fun fact:

Red, the colour, used to have a long vowel sound - rede - and if you meet a Mr Read or Mrs Reid then their name probably derives from the colour, just like Mrs White's, Mr Brown's, and Ms Black's.

Words like dead and bread also used to have this long vowel. He's deid!

fun fact:

the blood on the set of the Sweeney Todd movie had to be orange, partly because the lead actor was afraid of blood

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the yellower a chicken's food, the yellower the egg's yolk. Chickens who eat white cornmeal produce almost-white yolks in their eggs

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the Old English word for green was grēne and this is also related to words like grass and grow. Green is associated with fertility, which is why if you got married in the 1400s you'd probably have a green wedding dress

fun fact:

Giraffes have blue tongues, to protect them from the sun, because giraffes tongues spend a lot of time out

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in Indonesia, 'indigo' is often used to refer to people who see dead people. Indonesia is a very superstitious country with plenty of ghosts, and a lot of people have the sixth sense.

fun fact:

violets are the lesbian flower, or at least *a* lesbian flower

tada! that was my rainbow of fun facts, thank you very much