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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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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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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