ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 days agoWhat is the most obscure fact you know?message-squaremessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10
arrow-up1105arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most obscure fact you know?ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 days agomessage-square162fedilink
minus-squareCeruleum@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-24 days agoThe Latin meaning of the color ultramarine is “over the sea” Also, they once made a pigment called mummy, which was literally made out of finely grinded mummy.
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoin the same vein, cerulean (blue) comes from caelum, the sky
The Latin meaning of the color ultramarine is “over the sea” Also, they once made a pigment called mummy, which was literally made out of finely grinded mummy.
in the same vein, cerulean (blue) comes from caelum, the sky