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![Diply FACTS! Image Credit: Tennis365 Tennis balls used to be white until Sir David Attenborough realized they'd be hard to follow on color television, so the sport created "optic yellow" balls. - Diply FACTS! Image Credit: Tennis365 Tennis balls used to be white until Sir David Attenborough realized they'd be hard to follow on color television, so the sport created "optic yellow" balls. -](https://img.ifunny.co/images/8ebe8ab770b38dc7f114f926f9fd441905f5e2b53e98dcc57716cde9a028249c_1.jpg)
Diply FACTS! Image Credit: Tennis365 Tennis balls used to be white until Sir David Attenborough realized they'd be hard to follow on color television, so the sport created "optic yellow" balls. -
Why do some people perceive a tennis ball, which is yellow by the sport's rules and regulation, as being green? What makes some people think the ball has a greenish hue as
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