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 weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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