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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The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
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You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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