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Get a clear glass and half fill it with water. Place a straw or stick in the glass and if you look form the side you will see that where the stick enters the water it appear to have a kink in it. This is because the path of light is bent (refracted) by the water.

When you stand in water and look down at your legs, this bending of the light make the image of your legs took foreshortened.

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