Memory Facts

The human brain has an estimated storage capacity of 2.5 petabytes—enough to hold 3 million hours of television.

Blueberry juice boosts memory.

Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.

Caffeine can enhance memory consolidation, helping your brain better retain information learned shortly before consuming it.

Most people forget the majority of their dreams within minutes of waking up, with studies showing we may forget up to 95% of dream content.

The storage capacity of the human brain is estimated at around 2.5 petabytes—equivalent to about 2,500 terabytes or roughly 3 million hours of TV shows.

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

Your working memory can only hold about 4 chunks of information at a time.

Taking a nap after learning something can help your retention of it.

The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.

In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.

Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.

Chewing the same flavor of gum while studying and during a test can help trigger memory recall through a phenomenon called context-dependent memory.

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.

Thanks to muscle memory, strength and muscle lost during a break from exercise can be regained much faster than it took to build originally.

When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.

Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.

Déjà vu may occur when your brain's familiarity and recollection systems momentarily fall out of sync, creating a false sense that you've experienced something before.

Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".