Lurker_IV t1_j57feep wrote on January 20, 2023 at 10:42 PM

Reply to comment by jeanleonino in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

Fun history tidbit: the Japanese used the magic mirror trick of using reflections to expose microscopic flaws in microchip manufacturing. The engineers credited magic mirrors as the inspiration for their invention.

jeanleonino OP t1_j57sixv wrote on January 21, 2023 at 12:14 AM

Does asianometry know that one? Haha that's an awesome story