Crying literally alleviates stress and uniquely allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness.
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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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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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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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