When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
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Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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