There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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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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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain.
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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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