Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Research has determined that most people are happiest at 7:26pm on a Saturday night.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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