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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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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Crying literally alleviates stress and uniquely allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness.
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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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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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When you kiss someone for the first time, you get a spike in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making you crave more.
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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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