The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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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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Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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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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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 case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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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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