Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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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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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
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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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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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