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  2. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  3. 50 Real Photos That Look Like They’re Straight Out Of ... - AOL

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    On the other end of the spectrum, there are real-life photographs that look like they come straight out of a video game or movie scene. We've scoured the depths of the 'net to find the most gamey ...

  4. Here’s What Those Colored Circles on Food Packages Actually Mean

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    But there’s something else printed on the back of most food packaging: several brightly-colored circles or squares that look like some sort of secret code. However, these shapes aren’t an ...

  5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The two orange circles are exactly the same size; however, the one on the right appears larger. Ehrenstein illusion: The Ehrenstein illusion is an optical illusion studied by the German psychologist Walter Ehrenstein in which the sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape. Fata Morgana (mirage)

  6. Halo (religious iconography) - Wikipedia

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    The early Church Fathers expended much rhetorical energy on conceptions of God as a source of light; among other things this was because "in the controversies in the 4th century over the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son, the relation of the ray to the source was the most cogent example of emanation and of distinct forms with a common ...

  7. Parhelic circle - Wikipedia

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    A parhelic circle is a type of halo, an optical phenomenon appearing as a horizontal white line on the same altitude as the Sun, or occasionally the Moon. If complete, it stretches all around the sky, but more commonly it only appears in sections. [2] If the halo occurs due to light from the Moon rather than the Sun, it is known as a ...

  8. Ambiguous image - Wikipedia

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    To counter this, the visual system connects the image as a whole rather than a set of edges, allowing one to see an object rather than edges and non-edges. Although there is no complete image to be seen, the brain is able to accomplish this because of its understanding of the physical world and real incidents of ambiguous lighting. [6]

  9. The Amazon Prime symbol probably doesn't mean what you think ...

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    Investigate it like you'd be buying it on eBay," he said. "Understand that there's a marketplace out there." While Amazon vets all distributors which products it sells directly, third-party ...