So, here are some interesting things!
- Baader-Meinhof phenomenon; the illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly appears "everywhere" with improbable frequency
- A list of cognitive biases
- Heterochromia iridum
- Hyperthymesia; having a freakish ability to remember a lot
- Misophonia; hatred of sound
- McGurk effect; seeing is hearing
- Fatal familial insomnia
- Tarrare; a man who had a gigantic appetite
- Stanford prison experiment; most of you know this, I'm sure
- Milgram experiment
- Asch conformity experiment
- Fraternal birth order effect on sexuality; the more elder brothers a male child has, the more likely he is to be homosexual
- Schizoid personality disorder; having a lack of interest in maintaining any social relationships
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Capgras delusion; people believing that someone close to them has been replaced by an impostor.
- Cotard delusion; people believing that they're dead.
- Selective mutism
- Sentinelese people; an island of people that haven't been contacted with civilization, and seemingly don't know what fire is yet. They haven't progressed to agriculture either.
- Neglect syndrome; damage to one hemisphere of the brain may cause visual or other sensory neglect to the opposite side of an area. An with this monothematic delusion
- Michel Siffre
- Perceptual adaption; your brain adapts to rotated images falling on the retina
- Anton-Babinski syndrome; people not realizing they're blind, and confabulating excuses for why what they "see" is incorrect.