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Thursday 21 June 2012

20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE BRAIN YOU NEVER KNEW!!!



1)  The brain is approximately 75% water, but you should never drink it.
2)  Reading out loud to kids accelerates their brain development.
3)  The slowest speed information passes around your brain is approximately 260 mph.
4)  Your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience in your life.
      The issue is recalling them.
5)  The brain doesnt feel pain. Even though it preocesses pain signals, it does not feel the pain.
6)  The brain is more active at night
7)  Speaking of large numbers, there are approximately 1.1 trillion cells and
     100 billion neurons in the average human brain.
8)  Your peripheral vision improves at night which is why pilots are
     taught to use their peripheral vision when looking for traffic.
9)  The brain controls every activity in the body, if we could do those activities voluntarily,
      we could heal ourselves faster, and also superstrength(adrenaline).
10)The brain stops growing at age 18
11) The brain uses 20% of oxygen in the body.
12) If the brain looses blood for 8-10seconds, you loose conciousness
13) 5minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten, 10minutes after 90% of the dream is forgotten.
14) The brain is the most energy consuming part of the body
15) The brain generates about 25watts of power while you are awake...enough to light a bulb
16) A living brain is so soft, you could cut it with butter.
17) Human brain contains 400miles of blood cells
18) Studies indicate that human feelings originate from the brain
19) Each time you have a new though or memory, a new connection is made between two or more neurons.
20) Albert Einstein's brain was similar in size to a normal brain except the region
      responsible for math and spatial perception, it was 35% wider.



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