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- The old adage of humans only using 10% of their brain is not true. Every part of the brain has a known function.
- At birth our brains weigh and average
of 350-400g, as adults the brain averages 1300-1400g .
- Your brain is about 2% of your total body weight but uses 20% of your body's energy.
- The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25 watt bulb.
- More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than by all the telephones in the world.
- 70,000 is the number of thoughts that it is estimated the human brain produces on an average day.
- After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
- The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.
- Alcohol interferes with brain processes by weakening connections between neurons.
- Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.
- Farts are flammable.(funny but true)
- You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening
- Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
- There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.
- In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.
- There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
- The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy
- On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just over 2,000 words.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- One human hair can support 3kg.
