The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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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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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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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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Brain freeze is caused by the brain sensing the drop of temperature on your palate and increasing blood pressure in an attempt to save you from freezing.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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