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Image credits: astarisaslave #8. TIL in South Korea, only blind people can get a masseur's license. This law was established in 1912, to help visually impaired people earn a living.
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
Interesting facts shown as lightbulbs on post-it notes Like Dr. Seuss once said, “There are so many things you can learn about, but you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
Fact Check Armenia: a website with ties to Turkish government-related organizations that denies the historical facts of the Armenian genocide. [231] [232] Fact Checking Turkey: operated by PR company Bosphorus Global and counters criticism of Turkey in foreign media. It treats statements by Turkish government officials as arbiters of the truth.
In the fifth century BC, Empedocles postulated that everything was composed of four elements; fire, air, earth, and water. [1] He believed that Aphrodite made the human eye out of the four elements and that she lit the fire in the eye which shone out from the eye, making sight possible. [2]
The use of sight probably varies with species and water conditions. The shark's field of vision can swap between monocular and stereoscopic at any time. [ 58 ] A micro-spectrophotometry study of 17 species of shark found 10 had only rod photoreceptors and no cone cells in their retinas giving them good night vision while making them colourblind .
And the Instagram page ‘Unbelievable Facts’ is one of the best places to do just that. Every day, they share fascinating trivia, building a collection that now includes over 10,000 unique facts.
A familiar phenomenon and example for a physical visual illusion is when mountains appear to be much nearer in clear weather with low humidity than they are.This is because haze is a cue for depth perception, [7] signalling the distance of far-away objects (Aerial perspective).