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10 Beautiful Rainbow Facts
1. Rainbows, which are distorted images of the sun, would appear as complete circles if the earth's horizon did not block our view.
2. "Moonbows" are faintly-colored rainbows that are created by the passing of the moon's light through water droplets.
3. In some Meso-American cultures, rainbows are such bad omens that children are sent into hiding when one appears.
4. In Buddhism, the rainbow is sometimes used to represent the state one reaches just before achieving Nirvana.
5. In Norse myth, a burning rainbow called the Bifrost connected Asgard to the realm of humans.
6. In addition to single rainbows, they can appear in doubles, triples, and even quadruples.
7. According to Bulgarian lore, a person who walks directly under a rainbow will experience a change of gender.
8. Although humans perceive a rainbow to be divided into distinct bands of color, black-and-white photographs reveal that rainbows are actually one continuous spectrum of colors shading into each other.
9. Everyone sees a slightly different rainbow because of variances in position relative to the water droplets in the air. One person will even see a slightly different rainbow with each individual eye.
10. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that rainbows were the messenger goddess Iris in her visible form.
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10 Beautiful Rainbow Facts
1. Rainbows, which are distorted images of the sun, would appear as complete circles if the earth's horizon did not block our view.
2. "Moonbows" are faintly-colored rainbows that are created by the passing of the moon's light through water droplets.
3. In some Meso-American cultures, rainbows are such bad omens that children are sent into hiding when one appears.
4. In Buddhism, the rainbow is sometimes used to represent the state one reaches just before achieving Nirvana.
5. In Norse myth, a burning rainbow called the Bifrost connected Asgard to the realm of humans.
6. In addition to single rainbows, they can appear in doubles, triples, and even quadruples.
7. According to Bulgarian lore, a person who walks directly under a rainbow will experience a change of gender.
8. Although humans perceive a rainbow to be divided into distinct bands of color, black-and-white photographs reveal that rainbows are actually one continuous spectrum of colors shading into each other.
9. Everyone sees a slightly different rainbow because of variances in position relative to the water droplets in the air. One person will even see a slightly different rainbow with each individual eye.
10. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that rainbows were the messenger goddess Iris in her visible form.
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