On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Music has the ability to repair brain damage and return lost memories.
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Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
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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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