Why Things Got Their Specific Colors

Have you ever wondered why bubblegum is pink? Why #2 pencils are yellow? Why blue jeans are blue? It is often the story that many brands of the same product end up the same color because new brands want to be recognized as much as the first popular version, riding on their coattails, so to speak. But someone somewhere had to decide what color that original version would be. And there's a story behind each of those decisions. That's just commercials products. Some universal objects have logical reasons for their color. When it works in one place, it works everywhere. Let's learn some of those stories behind universal colors from Weird History.