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Originally Posted by Love Yuui
Humans only use 10 percent of their brains
This media darling has been around for at least a century. Fortunately, it's just not true. MRI imaging clearly demonstrates—with fancy colors no less—that humans put most of their cerebral cortex to good use, even while dozing.
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And it just doesn't make evolutionary sense to have such a big, resource-hungry brain if it hardly gets used... But then, that
is just a theory...
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Originally Posted by Love Yuui
Adults don't grow new brain cells
Much of a human's crucial brain development happens during childhood, but it isn't all downhill from there. Studies have shown that neurons continue to grow and change well into the adult years.
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And doesn't neural growth affect mood?
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Originally Posted by Love Yuui
A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian
A penny isn't the most aerodynamic of weapons. A combination of its shape and wind friction means that, tossed even from the 1,250-foot Empire State Building, it would travel fast enough merely to sting an unlucky pedestrian.
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I think I remember a television program about this for the Empire State Building, and this old woman was talking about how the wind blew all the change into this balcony-thing on one of the lower levels, and she was horrified at the notion of trying to kill pedestrians...
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Originally Posted by Love Yuui
There is no gravity in space
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But there
is no spoon. o_O