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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On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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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 human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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