Normally, ripe bananas are yellow due to pigments called carotenoids 🍌💛. But when bananas ripen, chlorophyll breaks down, allowing them to fluoresce and glow a blue color under UV or black lights! 🌚💙 facts fun fact food science

Blue whales can gulp down an incredible 457,000 calories in a single mouthful, which is over 240 times the energy they expend to catch those tiny krill! 🦐💥 fact facts fun fact

On May 20, 1873, the world saw the birth of blue jeans as we know them today! 👖💙 This was the day that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis were granted a patent for adding metal rivets to men’s denim work pants, making them even more durable! 🔩👷‍♂️ These pants were originally called waist overalls until the 1960s when the baby boomers decided to start calling them jeans. 🧑‍🎤👖 facts fun fact fashion history

Turkeys turn vibrant shades of red, blue, or white on their heads and necks when they're excited or scared—especially when a male turkey spots a female he likes. The skin flap over their beaks, called a snood, also turns red! 🔴💙 This is also why the president pardons a turkey each Thanksgiving. 🦃🎉 fact facts fun fact

In France, there's a biogas plant processing waste from a Mars chocolate factory 🍫, where M&Ms are made. Nearby beekeepers were surprised to discover their bees producing honey in green and blue shades 🍯💚💙. Experts believe the bees were feeding on sugary M&M waste, causing the unusual colors! 🌟 facts fun fact animals food

Most people have three cones in their eyes, which lets them see colors in the red, green, and blue spectrums, enabling them to recognize around 1 million shades! 🌟 But some rare individuals, known as tetrachromats, have four cones in their eyes, giving them the ability to see ultraviolet colors and perceive up to 100 million colors! 🌞✨ This extraordinary gift is more common in women than men, and many tetrachromats don't even realize they have this amazing ability! 😲 facts fun fact science