After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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You can only remember 4 things at a time.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
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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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