Caffeine boosts memory.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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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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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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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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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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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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