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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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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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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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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10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
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