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

According to Boing Boing, in nineteen twenty-nine, a Moscow newspaper editor discovered something remarkable: one of his reporters never took notes because his brain apparently did all the recording. It's the kind of case that fuels the myth of photographic memory—the notion that the brain can capture and retrieve perfect visual records on demand. But photographic memory doesn't actually exist. While this journalist's memory abilities were genuinely exceptional, the kind of perfect, permanent recall that people imagine simply isn't real.

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