TOP : 10
Fact : The brain has a joke center. Sometimes patients with damaged frontal lobes are unable to "get" jokes.
People laughing because of jokes |
TOP : 9
Fact : You can't hear phone conversations in noisy rooms. The brain can't distinguish background noise from the voice on the phone.
A noisy phone call |
TOP : 8
Fact : Yawning actually wakes us up. Yawning gets more air into the lungs, thus increasing oxygen to the brain.
Baby yawning |
TOP : 7
Fact : We are hardwired to remember annoying songs. "Sequence recall" learn daily routines also lets songs get stuck in our heads.
Hearing annoying songs |
TOP : 6
Fact : The brain uses less power than a refrigerator light. The brain uses 12 watts of power - 17% of the body's energy.
Brain energy model |
TOP : 5
Fact : Frequent jet lag can damage memory. Stress hormones released during jet lag damage the temporal lobe and memory.
Jet lag |
TOP : 4
Fact : Altitude makes the brain see strange visions. Oxygen deprivation is likely to interfere with visual and emotional processing.
High altitude places |
TOP : 3
Fact : Shoot-'em-up computer games aid multitasking. Shooting multiple enemies spreads your attention and means you are constantly reacting to events.
Playing multitask-type computer games are good for the brain development |
TOP : 2
Fact : It is impossible to tickle yourself. The brain dulls expected sensations when we cause them ourselves.
A girl being tickle |
TOP : 1
Fact : Bright sunlight makes you sneeze. Crossed wires in the brainstem send signals from the eye via the nose.
Man sneezing |
Data Sources :
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmcHH4wPpMU
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- The Times - UK
- www.sharewhy.com
- www.bps-research-digest.blogspot.com
- www.livescience.com
- www.dtop10list.com
- www.mathcs.emory.edu
- www.decolar.com
- www.dailymail.co.uk
- www.npr.org
- www.wikihow.com
- www.personal.psu.edu
Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
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