Sarah Goodridge was a prolific American painter who specialized in miniature portraits. She watercolored a self-portrait of her exposed breasts on a 2.6x3.1" ivory canvas for US Senator Daniel Webster in 1828, who was recently widowed. She titled the artwork "Beauty Revealed."
The foaming agent in toothpaste, sodium laurel sulfate, blocks your tastebuds ability to register sweetness. This makes it so you only react to the acidity and bitterness of oranges.
The portrait on the dollar bill of the first US President, George Washington, was derived from an unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart in 1796.
Thomas Jefferson believed the US constitution and laws should expire and be rewritten every 19 years. This prevents entrapping younger generations from the decisions of generations past that may no longer be relevant; otherwise allowing the dead to rule the living.
Our perceived view of the world is about 80ms behind physical events due to the speed at which the brain processes information. For context, 80ms is roughly the same time it takes us to blink.
