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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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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Music has the ability to repair brain damage and return lost memories.
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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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Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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