Random Brain Facts

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    The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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    Man Lost 50-75% of His Brain to Water on the Brain, Lived Normally
    A 44-year-old man lost around 50%-75% of his brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and continued to live a normal life. Specialists believe the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the brain remapped itself to retain functionality despite the loss of mass.
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    When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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    Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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    The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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    Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
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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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