This week on Interesting Nuggets, we’re examining the world of colour and gender — we’re asking the big question: why is pink for girls and blue for boys? Is it a recent thing, or have we been colour-coding babies for centuries?

If you’ve ever dressed your baby girl head-to-toe in pink and added a bow to her bald head just to avoid the ‘what a handsome little boy!’ comments, this nugget’s for you