282. Radhika is experimenting with riding her bike with no hands.
283. The color red has been proven to influence people to make irrational decisions, which may explain why red cars are often in accidents.
284. Red is the only color word in English that has an Indo-European root (the word "reudh").
285. The Russian word "krasnaya" can mean "red" or "beautiful".
286. Chinese obituaries are traditionally written in red ink.
287. The word pink, in the 17th century, referred to a yellowish-greenish color as well as the shades we would all recognize.
288. From the 1920s to the 1940s, pink, being related to red, was considered a masculine color, while blue was considered feminine. Then it flipped.
289. There is a species of iguana that is pink.
290. The Pink Panther, in the Inspector Clouseau movies, is named for the flaw, like a panther, inside the giant pink diamond.
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