There may be something to this. I was an elementary school kid during the late 70s (1979?) eclipse. We went out onto the playground to view it, and I'm pretty s

There may be something to this. I was an elementary school kid during the late 70s (1979?) eclipse. We went out onto the playground to view it, and I'm pretty sure I ignored all the warnings to not look directly at the sun. (It's not like I hadn't looked directly at the sun before, though.)