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1. Bull in bullfighting matador attacking red cape called Mulet, not because of his annoying red - because cows do not distinguish colors. In fact, the bull reacts to movement when the bullfighter swings muleta. A red color has historically been chosen with a view to the blood of the bull was less noticeable.
2. flight data recorder, which is installed on airplanes to record information about the health status of all devices, and the actions and conversations of the crew, often called "black box." Although in reality it is not the shape of the device has a box and a sphere or cylinder, and its color is not black and red or orange to make it easier to find in case of an accident.
3. It is widely known concept of "white noise" - so say about the signal with uniform spectral density at all frequencies and variance equal to infinity. An example of white noise - the sound of the waterfall. However, apart from a large number of white emit other color noises. Called pink noise signal, which is inversely proportional to the density of the frequency, while the red noise density is inversely proportional to the square of the frequency - they are perceived by hearing a "warm" than white. There are also concepts of blue, purple, gray and many other noises.
4. Short-wave components of the solar spectrum are dispersed in the air stronger than the long-wave. That is why we see the sky blue - blue color is in fact at the short end of the visible spectrum. For the same reason during sunrise or sunset on the horizon, the sky is painted in red tones. At this time, the light goes on a tangent to the Earth's surface, and its path is much longer in the atmosphere, resulting in a significant portion of the blue and green color due to scattering leaves in direct sunlight.
5. Many people believe that a zebra - a white horse in the black band, since zebras white bellies. However, studies of zebra at the embryonic stage shows that the background color of the animal - namely black, zebra therefore correct to consider the black in a white band.
6. Earlier in Scotland took place color differentiation kilts. Depending on their rank person had the right to wear a kilt with a limited set of colored bands in the tissue. For example, a six-color kilt was the exclusive privilege of the king. Also, a set of colors in a kilt allowed to judge where the person was born, as the weavers had limited choice for the area of plants, from which it was possible to get the paint.
7. Russian analogue of the expression "black sheep" in many European languages is an idiom of "black sheep". Although, if we call the black sheep of a member of an exclusive society, calling a man a black sheep, and more Europeans hint on finding the undesirability of such a member in the society. In this sense, the idiom is moving closer to another Russian expression - "black sheep».
8. Facades Gothic cathedrals during their construction in the Middle Ages were not necessarily the same gray and severe, as we see them now. When, in the 1990s, Amiens Cathedral in France has undergone laser cleaning, it was found that many centuries ago, the facade was painted in a variety of bright colors. Now the cathedral on holidays highlighted in the same colors as it was in the 13th century.
9. In one of the prisons of Georgia entire inner part of the male branch painted in pink, and the prisoners wear pink form. According to the warden, then innovations in prison was much less conflict among prisoners. The female part of the prison painted in lime green, the truth, is there from him the same effect, are not reported.
10. In 1668 Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered the Dutch engineer David Butler to build a ship "Eagle", which became the first in the history of the Russian Navy. On completion of a question - how to raise the flag on the ship, because in our country it did not exist then. The king ordered to ask for advice from Butler, who said that in his country raised the tricolor flag with red, white and blue stripe (he remained in the Netherlands, and to this day). For our ship took the same color, only changed the order of the bands on the white, blue and red. By the way, today is no official interpretation of the colors of the Russian flag is not there.
11. Brown today strongly associated with Nazism. Although he was selected by the Nazis are not specifically, but for quite prosaic reason. When Germany lost its African colonies after World War I, in warehouses remains a large number of uniform brown color (especially African landscapes). This uniform of the National Socialist Party and acquired on the cheap for its storm troopers.
12. Billiards evolved from games with sticks and balls in the open air and in some way is related to golf and croquet. Therefore, in a tribute to the tradition of cloth on most pool tables green as the color of the grass.
13. Many of us use toothpaste from several strips (for example, red, white and blue). But why bands remain flat and the colors do not mix? For this purpose, a special tube, patented in the US in the late 1950s. The neck of the tube is an elongated tube, which ends at the level of filling white base paste. Closer to the neck in the tube has a small hole through which the colored fillers.
14. The Spanish royal family and the nobility were proud of the fact that, unlike ordinary people, they are descended from the West ready and never mingled with the Moors, penetrated into Spain from Africa. Unlike smuglokozhih commoners, pale skin representatives of the upper class blue veins stood out, and so they called themselves the sangre azul, which means "blue blood." From this expression to describe the aristocracy has penetrated into many European languages, including Russian.
15. Flag of the Philippines consists of a white triangle, which concluded the sun and the stars, and two bands - blue and red. It is the only state flag, which has two equal options: in peacetime blue bar on top and bottom is red, and when the state of war in the Philippines, on the contrary.
16. The assertion that the human brain perceives color, spread out on the red ®, green (G) and blue (B) components, is not true. In fact, the brain receives information about the difference in brightness between white and black, between green and red, and between blue and yellow flowers. This explains the phenomenon that people are equally perceived color of objects under different light sources.
17. In the era of black-and-white television cameras often used a red filter, which is why red lipstick makes lips on television pale. Therefore, announcer and actresses green makeup blush and lipstick.
18. Initially, the Japanese was no difference between blue and green, and was used to refer to them one word - Aoi. Featuring a blue and green educational benefits began only in the mid-20th century, but even today, Aoi word may denote the color of vegetation. And in many other Asian languages, even if there are separate words for these colors, natural objects such as leaves, are indicated in blue, green and only man-made objects actually green.
19. The blue color of the eyes - is the result of a mutation in the gene HERC2, because of which the carriers of this gene is reduced production of melanin in the iris. There was this mutation about 6-10 thousand. Years ago in the northwestern part of the Black Sea coast, so that all people with blue eyes are considered relatives.
20. For a long time it was thought that the ancient Greek sculpture in white marble were originally colorless. However, recent studies scientists have confirmed the hypothesis that the statues were painted in a wide range of colors, which eventually disappeared under prolonged exposure to light and air.
21. Although the color spectrum of the rainbow is continuous tradition in it emit 7 colors. It is believed that the first selected is the number of Isaac Newton. And initially it was distinguished only five colors - red, yellow, green, blue and purple, and what wrote in his "Optics". But then, trying to create a correspondence between the number of colors of the spectrum and the number of basic tones of the musical scale, Newton added two more colors.
22. Dalmatian puppies are born completely white.
23. The pink color of flamingos given to them from birth, and is derived from the edible small red crustaceans or algae that contain carotenoids.
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