Random trivia | 45 facts the grey color

Grey is an achromatic color, that is commonly used as a minimalistic one, when decorating rooms in modern houses.

It’s not a popular color, and not so favorite, but how many things do we know about the “stormy” color?

1. Grey is also written as gray.
2. It is an intermediate color between black and white.
3. It is a neutral color or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is a color “without color” because it can be composed of black and white.
4. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, and of ash.
5. The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in AD 700.
6. In Europe and North America, surveys show that grey is the color most commonly associated with neutrality, conformity, boredom, uncertainty, old age, indifference, and modesty.
7. Only 1% of respondents chose it as their favorite color.
8. The study found that people with depression or anxiety were more likely to associate their mood with the color gray, while happier people preferred yellow.
9. Grey comes from the Middle English grai or grei, from the Anglo-Saxon graeg, and is related to the Dutch grauw and grijs and German grau.
10. In the late 1930s, grey became a symbol of industrialization and war.
11. It was the dominant color of Pablo Picasso’s celebrated painting about the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, Guernica.
12. A grey aura mostly associated with monks, nuns, and other spiritually inclined people, suggests the characteristic traits of simplicity, wisdom, and calmness.
13. They also possess the ability to adapt to various situations, are of compromising nature, and can keep secrets diligently.
14. Some grey animals are elephants and grey wolves.
15. If an Elephant dies, it’s family members take very good care of the bones.
16. On average, the ear sizes of an African elephant and an Asian elephant are very different.
17. African elephant’s ears are three times larger than those of Asian elephants.
18. African elephants tend to use their long ears for reasons such as signaling others and protection.
19. The average adult elephant poops 80 pounds a day!
20. Both African and Asian elephants use their ears as an air conditioner.
21. During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies, killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.
22. An elephant has been tried and hanged for murder back in 1916.
23. This large mammal can drink up to 80 gallons of water in one single day.
24. The smell of water is so familiar to them that they can recognize it from a distance of three miles!
25. Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.
26. As we grow older our hair gets grey.
27. Going grey depends on your genes!
28. There is a “grey” movie: The 50 shades of grey.
29. Less than 1 percent of people have grey eyes, as they are very rare.
30. Grey eyes are most common in Northern and Eastern Europe.
31. Scientists think gray eyes have even less melanin than blue eyes.
32. Once the world’s most widely distributed mammal, the grey wolf’s range has been reduced by one-third.
33. The grey wolves are carnivores that usually prey on ungulates much larger than themselves, such as elk, deer, or moose, but will also eat smaller mammals such as beaver, rabbit or livestock.
34. On average, grey wolves will eat 20 to 30 pounds of meat in one meal but have also been known to go up to 14 days between meals with no ill effects.
35. There are five subspecies of gray wolves in North America. Their coat colors can range from pure white to brown, gray, cinnamon or black.
36. Gray wolves travel in packs of four to seven, led by alphas—the mother and father wolves that track, hunt, and choose dens for the pups or younger subordinate wolves. Wolves often mate for life.
37. Wolf pups are born blind and deaf and must be cared for until they mature at around ten months of age.
38. The grey wolves typically hunt within territories, ranging from 50 to 1,000 square miles.
39. Social creatures, gray wolves have a complex communication system that involves body language, barking, growling, “dancing,” howling, and scent making.
40. The grey wolves are frequently mentioned in human folklore. In Roman mythology, the Wolf-Goddess Lupa finds Romulus and Remus, future founders of Rome, as infants and nurses them until a shepherd took them in.
41. Grey is a perfect choice for advertisements for luxurious brands.
42. It is also used by advisors, financial, and business trainers.
43. The New York Times is sometimes called the “Grey Lady”.
44. The human eye can distinguish about 500 shades of gray.
45. The Confederate Army wore grey uniforms during the Civil War.