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Finnish SM-Liiga ice-hockey team Tappara is famous for unusual orange hockey pants.
 
Orange is the traditional and most common colour of a Basketball.
 
Orange is the colour of the 5-ball and 13-ball in Billiards.
 
(The 13-ball is white with an orange stripe.)
 
Orange is the colour of the ball in Snooker Plus with an 8-point value.
 
Orange is the colour of Chelsea Goalkeeper Petr Cechs new Jersey.
 
He chose he colour because it makes the wearer appear larger, therefore causing distraction in opposing strikers.
 
People whose natural hair colour is metaphorically described in English as being red, i.e. redheads, actually have hair that averages a burnt orange colour.
 
Orange is often quoted (along with Purple and Silver (color)) as a word that doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language.
 
This is debatable - see Orange (word)#Rhyme.
 
However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).
 
In a children's book of verse, in a poem titled "Color," there are these lines:

What is red? a poppy's red, in its barley bed.
What is orange? Why, an orange--just an orange!
 
In the United States and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.
 
Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands, because its royal family of Orange-Nassau used to own the principality of Orange (the title is still used for the Dutch heir apparent).
 
There is no etymological connection between orange (the fruit and colour) and Orange (the name of the principality), and the similarity is fortuitous.
 
(See the page on Orange (word) for more information.)
 
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