Some Incredible Facts About The Human Brain.
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- Actually, a human brain or your brain is MORE active when you’re asleep.
- Information can go in-between parts of your brain at a speed of 260mph.
- You have over 100,000 miles of axons in your brain. They could wrap around the Earth 4 times.
- Your brain doesn’t have pain receptors. It can’t feel anything.
- The human brain's lack of pain receptors is why doctors can perform brain surgery on conscious patients.
- Kim Ung-Yong of South Korea had the highest IQ ever recorded (210).
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- Your brain is the fattest organ in your body. It’s about 60% fat.
- The human brain can generate about 25 watts of power at any given time. It could power a light bulb.
- Having a bigger brain doesn’t make you smarter. In fact, Albert Einstein had a relatively small brain.
- During pregnancy, a woman’s brain will shrink. It will take up to 6 months to regain its size.
- 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.
- Experts estimate that, over the course of a lifetime, modern human brains will retain up to 1 quadrillion pieces of information.
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- You had more brain cells when you were 2 years-old than you will at any other point in your life.
- There are more than 100,000 chemical reactions happening in the human brain every SECOND.
- Your brain accounts for 2% of your mass but uses 25% of your oxygen and energy.
- You could survive only having one side of your brain.
- Your brain will continue to develop until you’re in your late 40s.
- Every day, you have about 70,000 thoughts.