After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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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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