If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Playing Tetris after a traumatic event can prevent the development of traumatic memories and reduce the chance of having flashbacks.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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Pain occurs when sounds are above 130 db.
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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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A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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