Brain

Walter Freeman toured the U.S. in his "lobotomobile," performing ice-pick lobotomies through the eye socket — sometimes on children as young as 4, at their parents' request.

John Harvey Kellogg invented Corn Flakes as part of an anti-masturbation diet. He believed bland food would suppress sexual urges.

Jack Nicholson's mother posed as his sister. His grandmother posed as his mother. Both died without telling him. A journalist did.

Your brain runs on an 80-millisecond delay. Everything you experience has already happened. You have never perceived the present moment.

The organ that processes all your pain sensations has no pain receptors itself. Surgeons can operate on a conscious patient's brain while they chat about the weather. The brain literally cannot feel itself being touched or cut.