You can only remember 4 things at a time.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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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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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human 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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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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