Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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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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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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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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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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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 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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