Chunking — grouping information into meaningful units — expands the effective capacity of working memory.

The introduction of antiseptic surgery reduced infection rates.

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Certain primates can recognize numerical quantities.

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The Thatcher illusion disrupts facial recognition when inverted.

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There are more possible shuffles of a deck of cards than seconds since Earth formed.

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The Stanford prison experiment explored role-based behavior in groups.

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The discovery of DNA’s structure occurred in 1953.

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Quantum particles can influence each other instantly across distance.

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There are invisible colors humans cannot see.

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