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Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by fadjnr(m): 4:10pm On Jan 03, 2015
1.) You use more than 10% of your brain (in fact
you use all of your brain). Most of your brain is
active all of the time, even when you’re asleep.

2.) Actually, your brain is MORE active when
you're asleep.

3.) Information can go in between parts of your
brain at a speed of 260mph.

4.) You have over 100,000 miles of axons in your
brain. They could wrap around the Earth 4 times.

5.) Your brain doesn’t have pain receptors. It
can’t feel anything.

6.) Its lack of pain receptors is why doctors can
perform brain surgery on conscious patients.

7.) Kim Ung-Yong of South Korea had the
highest IQ ever recorded (210).

8.) Your brain is the fattest organ in your body.
It's about 60% fat.

9.) Ancient peoples thought the brain wasn’t
important as the stomach and heart. When
mummifying people, Egyptians would pull the
brain out through the nose.

10.) Brain tissue has a consistency that's very
similar to tofu.

11.) Your brain can generate about 25 watts of
power at any given time. It could power a light
bulb.

12.) Homunculus is a drawing created by Wilder
Penfield. He showed us what we would look like
if our body parts were as big as the brain space/
power they use.

13.) Brain surgery is an old practice. Some
cultures practiced trepanation, which is when
holes would be drilled in the skull in an attempt
to alleviate pain or cure sickness.

14.) Having a bigger brain doesn’t make you
smarter. In fact, Albert Einstein had a relatively
small brain.

15.) During pregnancy, a woman’s brain will
shrink. It will take up to 6 months to regain its
size.

16.) When you were born, your brain was about
the size it is now. That’s one reason why babies
have such large heads relative to their bodies.

17.) Experts estimate that, over the course of a
lifetime, modern human brains will retain up to 1
quadrillion pieces of information.

18.) You had more brain cells when you were 2
years-old than you will at any other point in your
life.
19.) It’s easy to trick your brain.

20.) There are more than 100,000 chemical
reactions happening in your brain every SECOND.

21.) Your brain accounts for 2% of your mass,
but uses 25% of your oxygen and energy.

22.) You could survive only having one side of
your brain.

23.) Your brain will continue to develop until
you're in your late 40s.

24.) Every day, you have about 70,000 thoughts.

Source :www.omgfacts.com

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Re: Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by Nobody: 4:15pm On Jan 03, 2015
NICE ONE THERE OP/
Re: Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by TrishaP(f): 4:26pm On Jan 03, 2015
Hmmmm nice
Re: Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by motherlode: 4:45pm On Jan 03, 2015
cheesy is no. 10 TOFU or FUFU grin

just asking? grin
Re: Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by fadjnr(m): 4:47pm On Jan 03, 2015
motherlode:
cheesy is no. 10 TOFU or FUFU grin

just asking? grin

It's tofu O.
Re: Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by fadjnr(m): 4:48pm On Jan 03, 2015
aze:
NICE ONE THERE OP/

Thanks
Re: Some Amazing Facts About The Brain by Nobody: 5:42pm On Jan 03, 2015
The Human brain is pinkish-beige in colour

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