stackyFACTSIf you need to move boxes, paint them white first. The visual weight illusion forces humans to perceive deeply saturated, dark-colored objects as vastly denser and heavier than lightly colored objects of the exact same size and mass. Your eyes are fundamentally terrible at physics.
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