Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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You can only remember 4 things at a time.
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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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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 is more active during sleep than during the day.
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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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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