There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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You can only remember 4 things at a time.
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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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Music has the ability to repair brain damage and return lost memories.
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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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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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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 human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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