•    The colour green signifies nature, life, youth, safety and hope. Green is the second most favourite colour — blue being the first.

•    Green represents ‘Go’ in traffic signals, railway signals and ship signals. It is known as a safe colour worldwide which is why first-aid equipment is often green. Fire escape exit signs are green in most countries, although some are red.

•    Green is the colour used for night vision goggles because the human eye is most sensitive and able to distinguish the most shades in that colour.

•    The colour green is often used as a symbol of sickness, you’ll most likely have noticed this in cartoons; the character often has a green face when being sick.

•    Before the 1950s Santa’s suit was originally green until Coca-Cola bought him out and changed his suit to red.