These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

Forced Perspective

Forced perspective is employed in both film and architecture to create the illusion that an object is farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it really is. Visual perception can be manipulated through the correlation between scaled objects and the vantage point of a person or camera.

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The More You Know

  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
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  • A newborn baby is more than 3/4 water.
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
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