The Little Horse With a Littler Horse Illusion

I’ve got quite an interesting horse illusion for you today! Have any of you seen this going around social media lately?

Meet Da Vinci, the foal with a rather unusual birthmark, if you will. Dubbed Vinny by his owners, this little chestnut foal was born in May at the Fyling Hall riding school at Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire, England. When owner Wendy Bulmer bought his mother, she didn’t know that the mare was with foal. However, after little Vinny was born, she got another interesting surprise.

Vinny was born with a white patch of hair on his shoulder, neck, and leg that looks eerily like another small horse running alongside him. She saw the ghostly horse illusion as such a work of art, that she named him after one of the most famous artists in the world – Leonardo Da Vinci. I would have to agree that this horse illusion is definitely an interesting piece of art, and Mother Nature really did quite a job with little Da Vinci…

What do you think of Mother Nature’s horse illusion? Da Vinci is definitely a cute name, but I can’t help but think that there may have been a better name. What would you have called the little foal with the white doppelgänger horse illusion?

If you loved this horse illusion, make sure you check out these two horses with one head!

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Pregnant Parks have the best Park Rangers.

Invalidity Births please use alley.

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Found on bus in Beijing, China.

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Historical Events for 28th July 2015

1586 – Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1935 – Belgium’s Romain Maes wins Tour de France
1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1974 – Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1986 – Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1988 – IBM announces price hike on older models
1989 – Cards’ Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1993 – Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1997 – Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
2012 – 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia

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Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 28, 2015)

Packing For Pluvia

Kemal and his parents are part of an expedition that is going to settle a new planet, called Pluvia Three. Kemal knows that at the colony site on the planet, the average temperature is 45 degrees Centigrade, average wind speeds are 8,000 meters per hour, the planet rotates on its axis 431 times for every time it goes around its sun, and each rotation takes a third longer than Earth’s. Rainfall is 254 centimeters per year, and gravity is about 78% of Earth’s. Kemal is allowed to pack any four items from this list of his favorite belongings.

down-filled parka

battery-powered portable refrigerator

Asian fighting kite

baseball bat

Mickey Mouse® calendar watch

inflatable raft

hockey skates

book collection

Which four items should Kemal pack?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jul 28, 2015)

Australian Wildlife
Australia is a land of many animal species found naturally nowhere else in the world. Many of these are marsupials, mammals that raise their young in a pouch.

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Creativity : Lucid Dreaming

Lucid dreaming is the state of being aware that you are dreaming. This allows you to take charge and control your dreams in productive ways. Lucid dreaming can be used as a tool for problem solving and personal growth. Lucid dreamers (sometimes called “oneironauts”) regularly describe their dreams as being exciting, uplifting and highly rewarding.

Humans spend about a third of their lives asleep. Some lucid dreamers argue that sleeping through dreams is not a productive use of one’s lifespan. With consistent practice, people can learn to become lucid pretty much whenever they want and recapture some of this lost time. Lucid dreaming is not easy; it requires a lot of practice and training.

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Memory : Loci Waypoints

One of the big problems with the loci mnemonic system is that you cannot retrieve an item directly from the middle of the list. You usually have to start at one end of the list and work your way in. The following trick will help you quickly jump through a long list.

You are going to attach numerical waypoints to specific locations in your loci system. For example, you could associate a five-dollar bill to the fifth location and your ten toes to the tenth location. When you make your associations you will need to incorporate all three items into one visualization.

For example, if your fifth location is the bathroom sink, and the fifth errand you are trying to remember is to pick up the dry cleaning, you could picture yourself washing a five-dollar bill in the sink. Linking all three items together will allow you to jump directly to that location in your list. If you want to jump to the 12th item, simply think of the association attached to your ten toes. Then hop two locations up the chain.

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