There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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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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