The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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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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