TIL about the Thatcher Illusion

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Here's something cool I learned today that some of you may find fun! This is the quick breakthrough from Wikipedia

It is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.

The phenomenon is named after Margaret Thatcher because it was first illustrated on a photo of hers:

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Funnily, at first my brain thought the picture was a-ok but now that I have "seen" it I can't unsee it. I even tried it with other photos on Google images, it's like now that I know about it I can't experience it again 馃槀

Anyways, I could keep paraphrasing wikipedia to give the illusion this is an amazing post but I am too lazy to do that so feel free to visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect if you want to learn more!

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