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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Blueberry juice boosts memory.
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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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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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