Chocolate is associated with the release of serotonin, the hormone that makes you feel relaxed, calm, and happy.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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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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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 has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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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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