35 Random But Interesting Trivia Nuggets to Help You Learn Something New This Week

Do you ever think about how weird the way we talk about colors is? How do we decide which colors get their own words—like turquoise or blush—while others just get descriptions, like light gray? Why do some cultures have fewer words for basic colors, and others have more?

And then there is the strange case of the color orange. The word for the color did not exist in English until the 1500s, although the fruit had been known for a long time before that. It took decades or centuries before people started saying, “You know, like the color of those oranges.”