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How much energy does the human brain consume?

Your brain is only 2% of your body weight but devours 20% of all your energy, enough to power a dim light bulb.

Nature Neuroscience
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Why do we dream?

You spend about six years of your life dreaming, yet science still cannot fully explain why.

Journal of Neuroscience
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How many bacteria live inside the human body?

You are roughly half human cells and half bacterial cells, and they produce most of your serotonin.

Cell
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Why do amputees feel pain in limbs that no longer exist?

Up to 80% of amputees feel vivid, sometimes agonizing sensations in a limb that is no longer there.

Brain
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What causes deja vu?

That eerie feeling that you have lived this exact moment before has a scientific explanation in your temporal lobe.

Current Biology
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