Magenta can be found where on the rainbow? Nowhere, of course, is the solution. And to some, that implies that magenta doesn't even exist as a color. But what's going on when you can also walk out and purchase a magenta pencil crayon right this second?

On a color wheel, magenta can be found where red and purple meet. But on the light spectrum, this doesn't take place. This means that unlike the other colors in a rainbow that we can identify, magenta doesn't have a wavelength. However, it does exist in a variety of wavelengths, and when we see magenta, our brain recognizes this.

This means that magenta is produced by our brain, which fills in some of the gaps left by the way our eyes interpret different light wavelengths. To be fair, though, each hue is created in our brain based on how light wavelengths are analyzed and processed. Though it requires our brain to make it real, it is real in the same sense that any color is real.

An American television mystery series based on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew young-adult novels is called The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (renamed The Hardy Boys for season three). Glen A. Larson from Universal Television created the series for ABC, which aired from January 30, 1977, through January 14, 1979. Nancy Drew was portrayed by Pamela Sue Martin (later Janet Louise Johnson), and the brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur detectives, were played by Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy.

The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book series are both enormously well-liked. The Hardy Boys books have sold over 70 million copies. Nancy Drew can also claim this. Therefore, you'd imagine that their creators, Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene, would be very happy. However, neither of them are actual people.

Many writers use the pen names Dixon and Keene. Both were developed in the 1920s by Edward Stratemeyer, who came up with the names and gave other authors their ideas, so they could expand them into whole works. It functions very similarly to how content mills on the internet do now.

You'll occasionally come across a movie where a character boasts of having a photographic memory. There have been persons who have showed a fantastic recall under experimental conditions, therefore this biological quirk seems to be really helpful. The Rain Man character had memorized almost 9,000 novels from cover to cover. However, photographic memory as it is described in literature has never been proven in practice. In other words, photographic memory does not exist in reality. The only thing that is real is something close to it, called Eidetic memory. Eidetic memory is the capacity to accurately answer questions about a picture after having seen it for, say, 30 seconds and retain precise details about it.

You might wonder how someone could memorize 9,000 books but not have a photographic memory. It all depends on how they retain information. Lu Chao's ability to memorize pi to 67,890 digits is incredible, but he definitely couldn't do it the other way around. It's important to note this since a real photographic memory would enable instant access to any detail in any order. Although you may believe the difference is insignificant, there is a difference.

Even if they only exist as mutant turtles, everyone is familiar with ninjas. Ancient Japanese warriors in disguise, armed with lethal weapons and unhuman stealth. They have long been a mainstay of popular culture. It turns out that they were also largely born there.

It's not as though ninjas didn't exist. However, ninjas as we know them did probably not. There is reason to believe that most of what we think we know about ninjas is based on myths, theories, exaggerations, and supposition because the history of ninjas is, at best, vague.

According to what is known about them, they sound less like cunning assassins and more like vintage CIA-style intelligence agents who, of course, occasionally commit murder.

Today's social media is a great place to find mentions of patriarchy. In such civilization, men are the dominant group. It suggests that there might potentially be a matriarchy in which women rule. That definition is accurate and reasonable, but it's completely made up in terms of history. There is no proof that a truly matriarchal civilization ever existed, according to anthropologists.

The notion that women were venerated and in power before the concept of a patriarchy existed has persisted for a long time, however the evidence does not support this. This period is frequently estimated to have occurred 5,000 years ago. That's not to argue that there haven't been more equitable civilizations in the past, and there have undoubtedly been instances of women ruling, but it has never been done as the foundation of society as a whole.

Most pet owners have at some point wondered, "How would you have ever made it in the wild?" when they looked at their dog or cat. Of course, domestic animals are not bred to survive in the wild. Cows are no different; they are the product of many generations of selective breeding for characteristics that essentially render them unsuited for life in the wild. Actually, since there have never been really wild cows, it is quite unlikely that cows will ever survive in the wild.

The animals we raise for beef today are descended from animals like oxen and aurochs, who were the closest animals like cows in the wild that have ever lived, albeit they are still not cows. The work of domesticating cows from their wild cousins was enormous and incredibly challenging. There are 1.3 billion cattle in existence today, all of which are derived from just 80 tamed animals from 10,500 years ago. They were raised to become a far more docile and controllable animal.

People have been curious about the reliability of the Bible for almost as long as it has been around. People today are less likely to believe that Noah's ark was a literal object rather than an allegorical object, hence it is obvious that more people took the stories on faith back in the day. That is not to argue that no one holds that belief; nevertheless, even among those who identify as Christians in general, it is a mixed bag these days. What Bible experts consider to be wholly apocryphal, such as the accounts of Abraham and Noah, is thus unexpected. In other words, they think none of those men were real.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism published a new Torah and commentary in 2002 that assisted in putting their beliefs into perspective with regard to history, archaeology, anthropology, and other fields. There was no anthropological evidence for Israel's journey across Egypt, or really anything from the entire book being true in a historical sense, according to the information they shared, which also traced the origins of many stories from Exodus to other sources. It also explained how Noah's ark was probably adapted from the Gilgamesh epic.

Professor Thomas Thompson, one of the most renowned biblical experts in the world, believes that historical figures like King David, Abraham, Moses, Jacob, and King Solomon were probably merely stories. This was based on his own 15 years of investigation into the archaeological proof for many of the Old Testament's details.

Although the information undoubtedly caused some people to lose faith, rabbis and others have devised ways to try to reconcile knowledge with religion since, in reality, faith isn't the kind of thing that requires proof all the time. Despite being well aware of these facts for years, the majority of serious academics and religious authorities took their time in informing their followers and congregations.

Time is the one constant that the majority of us can rely on. Whether we notice it or not, time moves forward. You go to bed and awaken after eight hours. The fact that you weren't present to observe the globe as it spun made no difference to it. This appears to be a reliable source. Unluckily, you cannot. Time is a concept that only humans can grasp. We made years, months, and days, and we divided them into several denominations. People discovered techniques to control them as a result, never more so than for ten peculiar days in the year 1582.

We switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, and this is where we get into trouble. The Chinese calendar and the Aztec calendar are occasionally mentioned because people from different cultures have different understandings of concepts like time. The Julian calendar was in use prior to the Gregorian calendar.

When Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, which had issues, it dated back to 46 BC. A Julian year had 365.25 days in it. similar to the Gregorian calendar almost identically. However, almost doesn't matter. Things had become out of whack after 1600 years of a year that was just a little bit too long, especially the equinoxes and solstices. The Gregorian calendar had to just disappear since the old calendar was off by a day every 314 years.

Monks taking a vow of silence have been a staple of pop culture for any number of years now. There’s even a Buddhist monk in Hangover 2 who’s played for laughs that doesn’t speak. It’s true that some devout monks or nuns may choose periods of silence, but no monastic order fully practices this. Moreover, when individual monks do choose silence, it’s not an all-encompassing and unbreakable practice. Instead, it involves choosing to “speak with silence” and become closer to their faith. Time is still set aside for conversations, typically at the end of the day.

For the most part, the idea of a vow of silence is to prevent one from speaking without care. It allows for introspection and a better understanding of one’s self. This can take place between designated prayer periods, for several days or weeks at a time, or possibly longer if someone chose. But it’s not enforced and it’s also not expected. The Chinese calendar and the Aztec calendar are occasionally mentioned because people from different cultures have different understandings of concepts like time. The Julian calendar was in use prior to the Gregorian calendar.

When Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, which had issues, it dated back to 46 BC. A Julian year had 365.25 days in it. similar to the Gregorian calendar almost identically. However, almost doesn't matter. Things had become out of whack after 1600 years of a year that was just a little bit too long, especially the equinoxes and solstices. The Gregorian calendar had to just disappear since the old calendar was off by a day every 314 years.

And that's only one business. Cards are undoubtedly the most widely used gaming accessory in the world. There are thousands of various card games that one can play, and they date back to the 1300s in Europe. One of the most remarkable things about a deck of cards is not what they can accomplish but what they cannot do, given all the cards and games available. Additionally, they cannot ever be shuffled in the same way twice, according to statistics.

But it's not impossible, it is mathematically implausible that the deck you wind up with in your hands after shuffling has ever existed in the 700-year history of playing cards (though it's impossible to know one way or the other). During the shuffling process, there are 52 factorial ways to arrange a deck of playing cards. This indicates that there are 52 possible cards that could be on top of that deck after shuffling.

When you turn it over, there are now 51 cards that could be the second card, and so on. Each of the first 52 cards might also be the first of the next 51, and so on. The entire number of possible arrangements comes to the following figure, which you probably don't want to try to name: 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000. It is an 8 with 67 zeros after it, to put it simply. It's a sizable sum. We would never be able to shuffle all the possible permutations of cards, even if everyone who has ever lived spent their whole lives shuffling cards.