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TIL: birds exhibit very jerky movements mainly for depth perception — quickly switching which eye is looking at something enables comparison between viewpoints, much like humans constantly compare views from their two eyes which the brain uses to create a 3D picture.

by whatilearned September 15, 2022, 2:53 pm

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TIL about Chaicharn Harnavee, a Thai Special Force and POW in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. For assisting the American POWs who shared his captivity, Harnavee received the Silver Star and Legion of Merit medals from the United States and his picture is hung in the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes.

by whatilearned September 12, 2022, 10:42 pm

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TIL that Jeffrey Dahmer photobombed nearly every group photo for the school yearbook and was finally caught when taking a picture with National Honor Society

by whatilearned September 12, 2022, 8:12 pm

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TIL the very first assembly of photographs in sequential order to create a motion picture was a two-second clip of a black man on a horse.

by whatilearned September 9, 2022, 2:59 am

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What’s the difference between Jesus and a picture of Jesus?

by cringeyjokesman September 6, 2022, 7:58 pm

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TIL the actress/journalist Lisa Lu Yan is the only person who is a member of both the 87 member Hollywood Foreign Press Association that awards the Golden Globes and the 9,900+ member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 4:19 am

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TIL the Las Vegas Strip, or what people commonly picture as Las Vegas, resides in Paradise, NV – a town immediately south of Las Vegas, NV

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 5:26 pm

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TIL the Bouba/Kiki effect. A picture of two shapes is used to show that cross-language sound symbolism exists, when individuals overwhelmingly pair bouba and Kiki with round and jagged pictures.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 4:53 pm

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DID YOU JUST TOUCH GRASS? DID YOU JUST POST A PICTURE OF IT?

by CopyPastaArchive August 26, 2022, 7:20 pm

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Decoratively coloured walls are helping archaeologists paint a picture of this 2,000-year-old Roman temple

by HistoryBuff August 25, 2022, 2:56 am

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TIL that the “red lips” film poster for The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a spoof of the Jaws movie poster, which had been released that same year

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 3:49 pm

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TIL the word “emoji” does not originate from the word “emotion.” Emoji is Japanese for “picture character.” Eh + moji.

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 5:23 am

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