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   capndunzzl said, 9 months ago

   …waxed or unwaxed.
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   Jogger2 said, 9 months ago

   There really is a “Mental Floss” web site and a magazine.
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   Superfrog said, 9 months ago

   I use red wine and think of it a “brain wash”
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   win said, 9 months ago

   @Superfrog

   I use scotch and think of it as braino (sic); if alcohol kills brain cells, it’s only the weak ones.
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   Superfrog said, 9 months ago

   @win

   Yeah, and the weak ones just get in the way when you’re doing heavy thinking.
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   Sillstaw said, 9 months ago

   @Jogger2

   One of my favorites. Great trivia stuff.
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   Doctor Toon said, 9 months ago

   I’ve heard that we only use about 10% of our brains’ capacity
   

   
   Dos that mean we can kill off all the brain cells that we want to as long as we are careful about which ones we kill?
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   runar said, 9 months ago

   My dentist used a combination of hypnosis and Novocaine. He called it “Trance and Dental Medication”.
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   GymShoe said, 9 months ago

   Try to get 8 hours of meditation every night…. ! ! !
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    PeterL said, 9 months ago

    @runar

    :O That’s the funniest pun I have heard in a while.
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    runar said, 9 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    Snopes pretty much puts that old canard to rest. How about this? And if that’s not enough, there’s all of these search results.
    
    As Snopes said, “What part don’t you use?”
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    bmonk said, 9 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    I’d agree with runar. Consider this: brain cells are incredibly “expensive” to run—“Although the brain represents only 2% of the body weight, it receives 15% of the cardiac output, 20% of total body oxygen consumption, and 25% of total body glucose utilization.” (http://www.acnp.org/g4/gn401000064/ch064.html) More, these supplies cannot be interrupted for long at all without the brain cells dying.

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    If we did only use 10%, we would be a lot more efficient if we just got rid of 80 or 90%, and we’d lose nothing important.
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    iced tea said, 9 months ago

    My mental floss is prayer and Bible reading every day.

    P.T.L.
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    John Pike said, 9 months ago

    I’m gonna be a mental toss flycune.
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    runar said, 9 months ago

    @bmonk

    You’re quite right. It may be true that, at any given time, we are using a relatively small portion of our brain, but when you remember that different parts control different fuctions, you realize how it works and that most of the brain does get used at one time or another. Right now, I’m sitting and typing, so my eyes, hands and language centers are active. When I watch a TV show, my eyes and ears are active. Soon, I will make a trip to the store, where my language processing and hands will not be used much but my legs, now inactive, will be in use.

    As it said in Snopes, you never hear a doctor say, “Well, the bullet hit him in the head, but it only damaged part of that 90% that isn’t used”.
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