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What are facts about about rainbows?

Updated: 9/14/2023
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a few facts

A rainbow can be defined as a band of colours (from red on the inside to violet on the outside) assembled as an arc that is formed by reflection and refraction (or bending) of the sun's rays inside raindrops. They appear when it is raining in one part of the sky and sunny in another.

Most people think the only colours of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, but a rainbow is actually made up of an entire continuum of colours, even colours the eye can't see!

The idea that a pot of gold can be found at the rainbow's end originated somewhere in old Europe. In Silesia, an obscure area of Eastern Europe, it was said that the angels put the gold there and that only a nude man could obtain the prize.

Can you go under a rainbow's arch and come out the other side? Not according to the laws of physics. A rainbow is all light and water. It is always in front of you while your back is to the sun. However, there is an old European belief that anyone passing beneath the rainbow would be transformed, man into woman, woman into man!

Well, that would be less painful than going to a surgeon.

When view from the ground, a rainbow appears as all or part of a great arc of colour. When viewed from a plane it is possible to see an entire circle as you can look down on raindrops as well as up to them.

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One of them is that the sun has to shining for you to see a rainbow

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