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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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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