Orange Facts

If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.

Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.

Orange, purple, and month are among English's most famously difficult words to rhyme—but they're not actually rhymeless. Orange rhymes with 'sporange' (a botanical term for spore sacs), purple rhymes with 'curple' (a horse's hindquarters), and month rhymes with 'oneth' (from the mathematical term 'n+1th').

Beavers have orange teeth!

While pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be green, white, red, gray, and even blue.

The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.

Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.