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Sources:

[Trivia Question]

Longest-lasting rainbow

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/9-hour-rainbow-sets-new-guinness-record-180968527/

[Fact Off]

Crustacean larvae camouflaged glass eyes

https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/shrimp-larvae-eye-glitter-nanotechnology.html

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glassy-eyes-young-crustaceans-predators

Brainbows (fluorescent cell visualization using lots of colors)

https://blog.addgene.org/evolution-of-brainbow-using-cre-lox-for-multicolor-labeling-of-neurons

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1352-5_6

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/698637

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/619298

[Ask the Science Couch]

Color psychology and emotional responses

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00368/full

https://isom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JOM_1979_08_4_01_Tranquilizing_Effect_of_Color_Reduces_Aggressive-.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880552/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1612362/pdf/brmedj02002-0030.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/435293a

[Butt One More Thing]

Caca-dauphin, the fashionable baby poop color 

https://theconversation.com/fornication-fluids-and-faeces-the-intimate-life-of-the-french-court-71982

https://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/articles/au-temps-de-marie-antoinette-le-caca-dauphin-etait-la-couleur-a-la-mode/54212

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