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Being able to see a rainbow only when wearing polarized sunglasses is something you don’t expect. According to Reddit user 420Blaze1t, this phenomenon occurs because “the sky is too bright from the sun and so the rainbow is faint that your eye can’t see it clearly. Polarizers remove scattered light which is why putting them on reduces glare and bright spots, so with a polarizer it blocks all the bright scattered light from the sky and makes the rainbow more visible.” Continue reading for more mildly interesting things you don’t see everyday.
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