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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On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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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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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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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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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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