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Lunar gravitational pulls dramatically shift ocean tides but do absolutely nothing to human brains

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People love claiming the full moon makes everyone act crazy because the human body is 60% water. But physicists ruthlessly point out that a mosquito landing on your arm exerts a stronger gravitational pull on you than the moon does. So your unhinged behavior during a lunar eclipse is purely a psychological placebo effect, not a tidal wave in your skull.

Lunar gravitational pulls dramatically shift ocean tides but do absolutely nothing to human brains
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