On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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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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When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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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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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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