Photographic memory is not real, but this guy's brain came close enough to scare everyone

In 1929, a Moscow newspaper editor discovered that one of his reporters never wrote anything down because his brain was apparently already doing the recording.

That is where the popular myth starts to wobble. People talk about photographic memory as if the brain can take a perfect screenshot of a page and retrieve it on demand. — Read the rest

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