10 unnecessary stupid facts about colors

Hand in hand! Eye to eye! All colors. Of. The. Rainbow. My favorite K3 song, but that aside. This Sunday it's time for some color in your life. Did you know this?

1. Newborn babies only see contrasts. After about four weeks, a baby starts to see color, beginning with the color red.

2. Color perception has everything to do with light (and its reflection). White is light, or the presence of all colors. Therefore, white is not called a color by itself. With black, it's exactly the opposite: all colors are absent, making black also a non-color. Just like gray, the mixture between black and white. Aha.

3. Color blindness occurs much more often in men than in women. For example, 1 in 12 men is color blind compared to 1 in 250 women.

4. By looking at yellow, you produce the hormone serotonin, known as the happiness hormone. It has been literally proven that yellow makes you happy. Long live my favorite color.

5. Speaking of yellow: did you know that this color makes you hungry? I’m loving it, just think of that yellow M. Yellow is also in the Burger King logo. Or in that of Subway. Wow, everyone uses yellow!

6. Silver cars are the least often involved in traffic accidents, so you know what to do if you need to choose a new car soon. Why? For the simple reason that silver is the most visible in the dark.
7. If you count all the shades of a color, you end up with millions of different colors. Just check when you're at the hardware store and want to paint a wall. Error.

8. The red cloth that a bullfighter waves could just as well be green, blue, or yellow. Bulls are color blind and react to the waving instead of the color red. Pfff, what a disappointment. Anyway, it's intensely sad and barbaric, this piece of Spanish ‘culture’, but that aside.

9. Blue is the most chosen color. #Snurk.

10. Did you know that you can only see a rainbow if it's early in the morning or evening? This is because the sun has to make an angle of about 54 degrees with the earth.