memory, n.Trivia

Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories

Spiders, in part, store their memories and cognitive abilities in their webs. Destroying a web partially erases a spider's memory.

Taking a nap after learning something new leads to significantly better recall of the information up to one week later.

Flossing can help your memory since it prevents gum disease, which prevents stiff blood vessels, which cause memory issues.

The Pi memory champ is Hiroyuki Goto (from Tokyo) who received 42,195 digits from memory in 1995

Blind people forget many memories since they don't have visual imagery and can't look at pictures to reminisce.

When a decapitated flatworm regrows its head, its old memories come back.

Creating false memories is incredibly common.

Crows have long-term memory including facial recognition

Butterflies can remember things that they learned as caterpillars.

Napping for just six minutes can improve your memory and ability to learn.

Your brain is constantly rewriting and editing your memories.

Lack of sleep causes the brain to remember events incorrectly.