The average person will go on a date at least 100 times before they finally marry.
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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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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
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