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You can refract your fame.
Andrew Huberman
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glasses to the face refract it.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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-- and therefore refract into a rainbow -- wavelengths slightly outside the ones we can see.
Tom Scott
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- Most optical materials, like these glass prisms, refract, or bend short wavelength light, like blue
Veritasium
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