It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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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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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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