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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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
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Only humans shed emotional tears.
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Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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