Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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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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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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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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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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