Try this: Saccadic masking in front of your mirror.

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Another weekday morning, another DKS morning. Another Get Fact'd excerpt.
Today's facts by Darren Maule are as follows:
The Lapland town of Salla, the coldest in Finland, put in a request to host the Summer Olympics in 2032 to raise awareness of climate change.

Saccadic masking is the process by which the brain edits out the motion of our eyes. Look in a mirror, first at one eye and then the other. You won’t be able to see your eyes move but an observer standing next to you will.

In early 19th century English boxing slang a fist was a mitten, a hard dumpling, a famble, a daddle or an auctioneer (because it knocked things down).
30 Aug 2021 1AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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