Explaining on Instagram: "Follow (us) @Explaining to learn something NEW every day 🧠‼️ Jim Carrey, who has long regarded Jerry Lewis as a comedic hero, made a memorable visit to Lewis in April 2016 — about 16 months before Lewis’s death in August 2017.  At Lewis’s 90th birthday celebration held at New York’s Friars Club, Carrey quoted a joke that Lewis had once made — one that Lewis had seemingly forgotten he ever uttered. When Carrey repeated it to him, Lewis burst into laughter, reportedly l

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Invention on Instagram: "In 2013, IBM scientists created A Boy and His Atom, the world’s smallest movie, by moving individual carbon monoxide molecules one at a time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, which can magnify surfaces over 100 million times, they positioned 65 atoms to form shapes and patterns that came together as frames of a stop motion film. Each frame measured just 45 by 25 nanometers, so small that 1,000 frames could fit inside a single grain of salt. The achievement was reco