Common Myths That Have Been Debunked By Science

People Use Way More Than 10% of Their Brain

This has been proven back time and time again to the point that the age-old argument no longer even makes any sense. The human brain is roughly 3% of the body's mass, but it uses 20% of the energy that your body has stored. So technically, your brain uses 120% of its capacity. 

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