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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Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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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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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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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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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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