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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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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