The day after Thanksgiving is called “Brown Friday” by plumbers in America because it is their busiest day of the year.
100 Mind-Blowing Brown Facts
7% of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That works out to 16.4 million people.
Vanilla is a member of the orchid family. This means “those little brown flecks in your vanilla bean ice cream are vanilla orchid seeds,” per the Smithsonian Institute.
Cacti come in many different colours other than green. Some species of cacti are naturally brown or brown-green. Many will have a waxy substance on the surface which prevents water loss from transpiration.
About 7% of American adults believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. While this may not seem like a lot, this totals around 16.4 million Americans. Imagine how they feel when you tell them buttermilk doesn’t have any butter in it.
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for American plumbers. This day is also known by many plumbers as “Brown Friday”. Many other drain companies also prepare ahead for this day to avoid major problems in their pipe systems.
Prescription bottles are tinted to prevent spoiling. Bottles of prescription meds are tinted orange or light brown to prevent UV light from degrading pills through chemical reactions.
Lucy and Linus (who were brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left field on Charlie Brown’s baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
Charlie Brown’s father was a barber.
Brown is the most common eye colour.
There are also four species of three-toed sloths including Bradypodidae pygmaeus, a pygmy species. The other three are B. torquatus, which has a mane; B. tridactylus also known as the pale-throated, three-toed sloth; and B. variegatus, the brown-throated, three-toed sloth. They share many characteristics with their two-toed cousins, but a few things are different.
Giant tortoise from the Galápagos Islands near Ecuador can weigh up to 250kg (550lbs) – the same as a brown bear!
Axolotls vary in colour from brown to pink to green. They have webbed feet and a long tail to aid with swimming, while many people say they look like they’re always smiling due to the shape of their mouths.
Interestingly, pink, white and albino axolotls are more common when bred in captivity. We’re not sure why this is, but you’ll rarely see a pink or white axolotl in the wild. Instead, they’re much more likely to be brown or green.
Sand comes in lots of different colours. Sand isn’t always golden, although that is the most common colour. It also comes in lots of different colours including red, brown, pink, orange, gold, purple, green, and black! The colours depend on the minerals and rocks the sand has been formed from. There are black beaches in the Canary Islands. This is because the sand comes from volcanic minerals.
A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
M&Ms were exclusively sold to the US military during World War II. When they were first produced in 1941, they came in cardboard tubes, and the colours were violet, green, yellow, orange, red, and brown. By the time the US entered WWII, M&Ms had grown big enough to score a contract exclusively producing the conveniently easy-to-transport chocolate for the military. Following the war, M&Ms were wildly popular, as they were the best part of the day for many soldiers in the trenches.