24 Amazing Facts About The Human Brain
Peter Pizagalli
Published
07/13/2014
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Science & Technology
Interesting things about your brain you probably did not know!
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You have over 100,000 miles of axons in your brain. That's enough to wrap around the world 4 times. -
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Information can fly around your brain at 260 mph -
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Ancient people thought the stomach and heart to be more important than the brain. Egyptians even pulled parts of the brain out through the nose before mummifying bodies -
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Your brain is the fattest organ in your body at around 60 -
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And it has the same consistency as tofu -
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At any given time your brain can generate up to 25 watts of power. That's enough to power a lightbulb. -
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Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 created a drawing that became known as a homunculus, which shows what we would look like if our body parts were as big as the brain space they take up. -
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Brain surgery is not something new. In the past some cultures practiced trepanation, or the act of drilling holes in the brain to alleviate pain and cure sickness -
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Contrary to popular belief you don't only use 10 of your brain. Most of your brain is active all the time, even when you sleep. -
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Despite the common myth that large brains equal more smarts, people like Einstein actually had a smaller brain -
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Experts estimate that over the course of a lifetime human brains of the 21st century will retain up to 1 quadrillion pieces of information -
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Humans have more brain cells at the age of two than at any other point in their lives -
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It can also play tricks on you. Square A and B are actually the same color -
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It has no pain receptors so it doesn't feel anything -
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This is why doctors are able to perform open brain surgery on patients that are still awake. -
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Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 created a drawing that became known as a homunculus, which shows what we would look like if our body parts were as big as the brain space they take up. -
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Your brain is actually more active while you are sleeping -
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A woman's brain shrinks during pregnancy and takes up to 6 months to regain its size -
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There are more than 100,000 chemical reactions happening in your brain every second -
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You could survive with only 1 side of your brain -
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Your brain was just about as big as it is now when you were born. That's one reason that babies have disproportionately large heads. -
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You have roughly 70,000 thoughts every day -
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Your brain accounts for about 2 of your mass but uses up to a quarter of your oxygen and energy -
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Your brain continues to develop until your late 40s -
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The highest IQ every recorded is Kim Ung-yong of South Korea at 210
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