Real-Life Optical Illusions That Will Blow Your Mind

How I'm Trying to Be

How nice would it be to just get bundled up like this on a daily basis? If you're not sure where the blanket ends and the cat begins, you're not alone. It's like Aunt Marge in the Harry Potter series—she just expands and expands until she eventually just floats away. 

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The More You Know

  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • 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.
  • J.K. Rowling became the first person to become a billionaire by writing books. However, she also lost her billionaire status because she donated so much money to charity!
  • The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
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