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Your brain loves patterns, which is why you see faces in clouds and meaning in “heyyy.”

✗ FAKE
Seeing faces in clouds is called pareidolia, and humans do tend to find patterns, including in random input. Seeing meaning in a text like 'heyyy' is a joke, though people really do over-read messages.

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