Neuroscience For Kids

Treasure Trove of Brain Trivia

A collection of trivia about the brain and nervous system from the archives of the Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter. For more trivia about the brain, see brain facts and figures.

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January, 2025

A. Actor/comedian Jamie Foxx and NBA San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovic both revealed last month that they suffered from a stroke.

B. "Brain rot" is the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year (Source: https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/).

C. A mummified woolly mammoth brain, estimated to be 39,000 years old, was discovered in Northern Yakutia, Russia (Source: Kharlamova, A. et al., Preserved brain of the Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)) from the Yakutian permafrost, Quat. Intern., 406 (B): 86-93, 2016).

D. The fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded is 12 seconds. This feat requires that people memorize the colors of the cube before they are blindfolded (Source: https://tinyurl.com/yunddhm2).

E. "Brain terrain" is the name scientists have given to areas on the surface of the planet Mars that look like the outside of the brain (Source: https://tinyurl.com/4jzazwnx).

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