The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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