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- The human brain is made up of about 75% water and consists of about a hundred billion neurons.
- The human brain is the fattest organ in the body that may consists of at least 60% fat.
- Tthe human brain is 2% of total body weight ,
- Humans have the largest brain to body size.
- A newborn human baby’s brain grows about three times its size in the first year and continues to grow till age 18.
- There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.
- Information can be processed as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec (about 268 miles/hr).
- The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
- While awake, human brain generates between 10 and 23 watts of power which could be enough energy to power a light bulb.
- It is thought that a yawn works to send more oxygen to the brain either to cool it down or wake it up.
- The human brain uses 20% of the total oxygen as well as uses 20% of the blood circulating in human body.
- If human brain loses blood for 8 to 10 seconds, a person will lose consciousness.
- The human brain can live for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen, and then it begins to die and no oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes will result in permanent brain damage.
- Music lessons have shown to considerably boost brain organization and ability in both children and adults.
- Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.
- Learning new things helps the human brain to change very quickly.
- Child abuse can damage development of the brain to the extent permanently affecting it.
- Every part of the brain has a known function.
- Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the human brain.
- Excessive stress has shown to “alter brain cells, brain structure and brain function.”
- Humans can’t tickle themselves because the brain distinguishes between unexpected external touch and a person’s own touch.
- Without any words, humans may be able to determine mood of a person just by reading the face.
- A small area in the brain called the amygdala is responsible for the ability to read someone else’s face for clues to how they are feeling.
- There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.
- Scientists have discovered that men and women’s brains react differently to pain,
- There is a class of people known as supertasters who not only have more taste buds on the tongue, but whose brain is more sensitive to the tastes of foods and drinks.
- Memory is formed by associations, so to remember things one should create associations to recall.
- Anomia is the technical word for tip-of-the-tongue syndrome when you can almost remember a word, but it just won’t come out.
- During sleep at night memories from the whole day are consolidated and lack of sleep may actually hurt the ability to create new memories.
- Insulin works to regulate blood-sugar in the body, but recently, scientists have discovered that its presence in the brain also helps promote memory.
- Most people dream about an hour or two at night and have an average of 4-7 dreams each night.
- Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten.
- If someone awakes during a dream, it is much more likely to remember the dream than if one slept until a full night’s sleep.
- Some people (about 12%) dream only in black and white while others dream in color.
- If someone is snoring, they are not dreaming.
- Humans blink 20,000 times a day
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