The colour red doesn’t make bulls angry; they are colour-blind.
100 Mind-Blowing Blind Facts
The majority of blind people in the U.S. and the U.K. cannot read Braille. Statistically, less than 1% of blind in the U.K. and under 10% in the U.S.
Roselle, a guide dog, led her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs during 9/11. The descent took about an hour, and they both safely made it out.
When dogs are first born, they are completely blind & cannot hear anything. The first sense that they develop is the sense of touch.
Bats aren’t blind. Despite the famous idiom, bats can indeed see, but they still use their even more famous echolocation to find prey.
Bulls are colour-blind. This means that a bull is not irritated by the colour red, but mostly due to the movement made by matadors. Bulls are unable to see colours within the red-green spectrum.
Color-blind people have better night vision. Since colour-blind people perceive colours differently, they can see “camouflage” colours that can’t be detected by regular eyes.
People born blind experience dreams of emotions, sounds and smells instead of images. Dreams are a product of our subconscious that is influenced by the stimuli we encounter in waking hours. For people who were born blind, their dreams manifest in other sensations such as smells and sounds.
Recorders used to be a popular instrument. Many people around the world will fondly recall the moment in their early schooling years when they no longer had to screech out a horrifying rendition of Three Blind Mice or something along those lines on a recorder. This seemingly useless musical instrument, while shunned today, was all the rage back in the Baroque period of the early 1700s. It was so quiet that it was eventually replaced with the significantly louder flute so that the rest of the orchestra wouldn’t drown it out.
Blind people can use cell phones. There is special Braille technology and accessories for blind people to use cell phones. It uses special pins that go up and down so the user can touch and read the info.
Mark Zuckerberg is color blind. The founder of Facebook purposely chose a blue colour scheme because he has red-green colour blindness! To him, blue is the richest and most prominent colour that he can see.
Smell test. A 17th-century King of Arakan chose wives by making women stand in the sun and then doing a blind sniff test on all their sweaty clothes. The ones he didn’t like he sent to lesser nobles.
London has the world’s longest-running show: At St. Martins Theatre in the West End in London, the world’s longest-running show is being played. Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been running since 1952, which means that the show has been running for more than 70 years now. The show started as a radio play, called Three Blind Mice, and follows the story of seven strangers snowed in at a home in the countryside.
The Longest-Running Show in the World Is in London: The longest-running performance in the world is being performed at St. Martins Theatre in London’s West End. Considering that Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap debuted in 1952, the show has been airing for over 70 years to this day. The plot of the show, which began as a radio play named Three Blind Mice, centres on seven strangers who become stuck at a rural house due to snowfall.