After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their 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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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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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