When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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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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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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