Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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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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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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