The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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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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