It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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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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Your fingernails grow faster in summer.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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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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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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Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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