On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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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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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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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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