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Amazing Facts 51# 

Speaking of tipping, you are a lot more likely to increase your gratuity to a waiter who has gently touched your arm as you were ordering. You may not have even noticed the touch, but your brain has and it has equated that touch with friendship and familiarity.
 

Amazing Facts 52# 

And even more on eating. Your brain associates elaborate words and descriptions with higher prices. Therefore it is happier for you to pay more for potato chips described as being dusted in cracked black pepper and dipped in sea salt than it would be for plain old salted potato chips. Almost unbelievably the same goes for fancy fonts in fancy restaurants that charge fancy prices. Spot an old English type of font and you’d better prepare yourself because you are being subtly guided to pay more than you may have expected.
 

Amazing Facts 53# 

The reason why rats can sometimes beat humans in certain laboratory tests is because they have no prefrontal cortex to plan with. So they listen exclusively to their unconscious mind and the associated electrical responses or gut feelings. Whereas humans can get all wrapped up in trying to plan their best way out of the maze and end up cheese-less.
 

Amazing Facts 54# 

There are over 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your brain. So if you pulled all yours out we could stretch them round the earth over 4 times. Unfortunately, you wouldn’t be around to see your amazing achievement, but you probably would make the Darwin Awards, and that’s no mean achievement.
 

Amazing Facts 55# 

Your brain doesn’t want you trying to fly when you’re asleep after you went to see Spiderman, so in effect it paralyses your body with a hormone designed to keep you from living out your dreams.
 

Amazing Facts 56# 

If you exercise your brain with puzzles, memory games and reading excellent self development blogs like A Daring Adventure you can continue to grow new neurons all your life. Unfortunately most people don’t know this and thus presume aging equals cognitive decline and sadly create a self fulfilling prophesy.

Amazing Facts 57# 

As I alluded to already, what you eat affects the efficiency of your brain. A study of New York students showed that those who ate food filled with additives and artificial flavors were outperformed by about 14% by those who ate more healthily.
 

Amazing Facts 58# 

Whereas 30% of your brain is given up to vision and all that goes with that, such as spatial awareness, depth perception and recognition etc, your sense of smell is still the easiest way to create conditioned responses/reflexes or anchors as they are called in NLP because smells enter the brain completely unfiltered by your belief system, unlike other senses.
 

Amazing Facts 59# 

The reason blind people often have other enhanced senses is because the brain thinks “Huh. I guess we’re not using that 30% for vision after all, we may as well use it for something else” and thus builds new neural pathways for the other senses.
 

Amazing Facts 60# 

The reason you can’t tickle yourself is because your cerebellum knows it’s you doing the tickling and sends a message to the rest of your brain to ignore the sensation and refuses to laugh. The miserable bastard!