1. Lack of oxygen in the brain for 5 to 10 minutes results in permanent brain damage.
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  2. Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.
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  3. New Brain Connections Are Created Every Time You Form a Memory.
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  4. Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
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  5. There's a virus that attacks human DNA making people less intelligent, impairing brain activity, learning and memory.
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  6. When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
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  7. Violent homes have the same effect
    on children's brains as combat on soldiers.
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  8. It's scientifically proven that even a small dose of POWER changes how a person's brain operates and diminishes empathy.
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  9. You have Taste receptors
    in the stomach, intestines,
    pancreas, lungs, anus,
    testicles and the brain.
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  10. The pathologist who made Einstein body's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.
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  11. The human brain has the same consistency as tofu.
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  12. The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
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  13. The brain releases so much
    dopamine during orgasms
    that a brain scan resembles
    that of someone on heroin.
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  14. Forgetting is good for the brain: deleting unnecessary information helps the nervous system retain its plasticity.
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  15. Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories.
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  16. "Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"
    is the scientific term for brain freeze.
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  17. There is no Left Brain/Right Brain Divide. It's a myth. They work together.
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  18. Long-term mobile phone use significantly increases the risk of brain tumours, a study found.
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  19. Sleep deprivation affects the brain in multiple ways that can impair judgment and slow reaction.
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  20. The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.
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  21. It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
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  22. When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.
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  23. Male brains, on average, have a total volume that is between 8% and 13% larger than that of females.
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  24. By 2023, the average US$1,000 laptop will be just as fast as the human brain, according to Ray Kurzweil.
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  25. Music triggers activity in the same brain structure that releases the "pleasure chemical" dopamine during sex and eating.
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  26. Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientist now think a Zombie Apocalypse is actually possible.
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  27. The feeling of Certainty can be triggered without the need for facts or reasoning, using electric stimulation over a specific part of the brain.
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  28. We have more brain cells as a newborn baby than we will ever have again.
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  29. Half of your genes describe the complex design of your brain, with the other half describing the organization of the other 98% of your body.
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  30. A baby's brain can use up to 50% of the total glucose supply, which may help explain why babies need so much sleep.
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  31. In 2015, the 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world took 40 minutes to simulate just one second of human brain activity.
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  32. The human brain is composed of about 100 billion neurons plus a trillion glial cells.
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  33. At rest, your brain uses one-fifth of a calorie per minute.
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  34. There are virtually no differences in brain anatomy between people with autism and those without.
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  35. You have about 70,000 thoughts a day.
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  36. Half our brains can be removed by surgery with no apparent effect on personality or memory.
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  37. There is no such thing as a "male brain" or a "female brain," all have an unpredictable mishmash of malelike and femalelike features.
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  38. Recovering from a break-up is like a kicking an addiction to a drug, researchers found from looking at the brain scans of the broken-hearted.
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  39. Research on naps, meditation and nature walks reveals that mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity.
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  40. The human brain named itself.
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  41. Researchers found that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow.
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  42. Human beings have as many brain cells in their stomachs as cats have in their brains.
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  43. Brain age decreases by 0.95 years for each year of education, and by 0.58 years for every daily flight of stairs climbed, a study found.
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  44. The brain can't actually feel pain despite its billions of neurons.
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  45. We can't remember much of our first few years because the hippocampus wasn't developed enough to build a rich memory of an event.
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  46. Human brains are 10% smaller than they were 20,000 years ago.
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  47. The human brain has enough memory to hold three million hours of television.
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  48. Humans spend 13% of their lives not focusing on anything in particular.
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  49. It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to understand the light that reaches your eye.
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  50. A woman's hippocampus —central to memories, mood, and emotions—grows in sync with estrogen levels as she goes through her menstrual cycle.
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  51. Breastfeeding actually changes the way a mother's brain works, making her more attuned to the child's crying.
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  52. People plotting revenge experience heightened activity in the brain's reward center, according to a 2004 study in the journal Science.
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  53. Our brain's cognitive decline starts at age 24, according to a study.
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  54. A scan of Sting's brain found that composing music activates different parts of the brain than writing poetry or creating art.
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  55. To your brain, one sleepless night is the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.
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  56. 35 years after leaving school, the majority of people can still identify 90% of their classmates.
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  57. The average intelligence of humans has risen 20 IQ points since 1950, a study found.
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  58. Lack of sleep may shrink your brain.
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  59. Research shows that people can handle two tasks at a time, but they make three times as many errors when a third task is added.
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  60. Brain scans taken during a study showed that listening to poems activated parts of participants' brains that are not activated when listening to music or watching films.
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  61. When looking at a crowd, we can only recognize two faces at a time.
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  62. To understand a pun, your brain's right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of the joke.
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  63. The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right one in 600 milliseconds.
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  64. While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, neuroscientist James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile.
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  65. Even a short, one-time burst of exercise can boost parts of the brain responsible for executive function such as decision-making and focus, a research paper found.
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  66. A study using MRI scans showed that the brains of people who exercise moderately look 10 years younger than those who don't.
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  67. When you first meet people it is common to forget their names - a phenomenon called the ‘next-in-line' effect. This is because people are too worried about themselves, and what they'll say next, to focus on remembering the names of people they're introduced to.
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