Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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