› added 3 years ago

67

TIL it's impossible to see your own eyes moving in a mirror due to a phenomenon called saccadic masking where the brain selectively blocks visual processing during rapid eye movements

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxZax TIL Research shows that developing resilience and fighting back against anxiety can be a matter of "unlearning learned helplessness."
w8BP TIL only 2% of members of the Church of Sweden regularly attend Sunday service
5jaQ TIL that the reason for ABBA’s often wild and garish costumes was due to Swedish tax law. The cost of the clothes was deductible only if they could not be worn other than for performances.
VE0G TIL Honda Tadakatsu, one of the most feared and legendary Samurai ever, once departed from a secure castle fortress to challenge an entire approaching enemy army in battle. The army promptly marched around him.
E1YNo TIL that General Ulysses S. Grant was once so offended by the mistreatment of a team of horses that he had the perpetrator tied to a tree for six hours.