We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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The scent of women’s tears temporarily reduces sexual arousal and testosterone production in men.
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