Some Amazing Facts on Human Brain
80% of the brain is water. It is important to drink water regularly to keep our brain functioning properly.
Our brain is the most-energy-consuming part of our body. It makes up only 2% of our body weight yet it requires 20% of the body’s energy production. The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25-watt bulb.
There are more electrical impulses that are generated in one day by a single human brain than by all the telephones in the world.
There are estimated 70,000 number of thoughts that the human brain produces on an average day.
Our brain contains about 100 billion neurons, each of them links to as many as 10,000 other neurons. This is why there are instances that we can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.
Our brain is more active at night as compared to day.
Alcohol interferes with brain processes by weakening connections between neurons.
Laughing at a joke is not a simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the brain.
Differences in brain weight and size do not equal differences in mental ability. The weight of Albert Einstein’s brain was 1,230 grams that is less than an average weight of the human brain.
A living brain is so soft you could cut it with a table knife.
There are about 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.
The brain can live for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen, and then it begins to die. No oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes will result in permanent brain damage.
The word "brain" appears 66 times in the plays of William Shakespeare.
Anomia is the technical word for tip-of-the-tongue syndrome when you can almost remember a word, but it just won’t quite come to you.
A world champion memorizer, Ben Pridmore memorized 96 historical events in 5 minutes and memorized a single, shuffled deck of cards in 26.28 seconds.
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1 comments:
" Alcohol interferes with brain processes by weakening connections between neurons."
this is i know is true. explains why our companion at your place acted the way they did! LOL! ",) Hope ur well now!
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