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"Humans and other mammals have two seahorses, one on each side of the brain."

Today I learned that "hippocampus" comes from the Greek for "seahorse", because it looks like a seahorse: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ec8c1ae4b047...




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