Chewing gum boosts your brain power.
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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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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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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 human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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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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