The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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