Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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