In fact, blue is an appetite suppressant! Think about it – as delicious as blue cheese may be, you know those veins of color come from mold.īlue laws were enacted to prohibit certain "morally objectionable" behaviors on Sundays.
Other than blueberries, blue corn, and some blue-purple potatoes, blue is a color seldom found in natural food. Sony promised to paint the village back to traditional white following the promotional blitz however, the 221 citizens who call Juzcar home voted overwhelming (141, said yes!) to keep the town blue.īlue is the least commonly occurring color in food. If you were around in the 1980's chances are you owned, played or watched the tiny blue gnomes knowns as The Smurfs. The world’s first “Smurf Village” was painted the color blue as part of the publicity campaign for the Sony film “The Smurfs in 3D,” which opened in July 2011. Research shows that mosquitoes most easily see dark colors, especially blue.īlue Moon ice cream is the name of a bright blue-colored flavor of ice cream, available almost exclusively in the mid-west United States. Mosquitoes are highly visual and their primary method of searching for human targets is through vision. The odds of a lobster being blue are slim indeed-one in two million according to National Geographic magazine-but thanks to a rare genetic mutation, the normally grayish-green American lobster does occasionally come in a beautiful blue too. In paintings, the Virgin Mary has long been portrayed wearing the color blue, partly because blue symbolizes fidelity and tranquility, but also because ultramarine blue was historically very expensive, so it made sense to clothe the Virgin Mother in costly colors. Blue-eyed people are more sun-sensitive–showing higher rates of melanoma–and are also more likely to be alcoholics than people of other eye colors. Why are there fewer blue-eyed folks? The gene for blue eyes is recessive.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, nearly half of the population was blue-eyed. One in six Americans has blue eyes, and that number has declined over time.
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