An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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