Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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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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It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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