Top ten facts that will amaze you about colours

1. National Colouring Book Day began in the US in 1970 when Dover published Antique Automobiles, the first colouring book for adults.

2. Research in 2008 reported that football teams wearing red shirts have an advantage thanks to our deep-rooted biological response to the colour. 

3. The King James Bible only mentions the colour brown four times, all in Genesis Chapter 30. 

4. Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour. 

5. Alpaca wool comes in 22 natural colours, the most of any wool-producing animal. 

6. Bees cannot see the colour red, it looks the same as black to them. Sea lions also can’t see red. 

7. In 1996 research was published that female guppy fish prefer brightly coloured males to drab ones. 

8. In 1969 Birds Eye frozen peas became the first product advertised on colour television in the UK. 

9. While humans can see only three primary colours, eagles see five and mantis shrimp 11 or 12. 

10. Isaac Newton gave us a seven-colour spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, through a mystical belief in the number seven.