BRAIN FACTS
1.the weight of an average human brain is about 1300-1400g - @ 3lbs i.e., almost one bag of sugar.
It's smaller than an elephant's brain (6000g) but bigger than a monkey's brain (95g)! A dog's brain weighs about 72g and a cat's brain weighs abut 30g.
Our skin weighs twice as much as our brain!
2.Our brain consists of 60% white matter and 40% grey matter.
3.Our brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe!
4.Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Transmission can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
Traveling at 120 meters/sec is the same as going 268 miles/hour.
5.If we could harness the power used by our brain, we could power as a 10-watt light bulb.
6.The brain represents about 2% of our total body weight. It is roughly 140mm wide, 167mm long and 93mm high.
7.Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.
8.Our brain consists of about 100 billion neurons!
That's about 166 times the number of people on the planet! It would take you approximately 171 years to count them all!
9.Our brain uses approximately 20% of the total oxygen pumping around our body!
...and about 750ml of blood pumps through our brain every minute!
10.when we were born, our brain weighed about 350-400g and we had almost all the brain cells we will ever have. In fact, our brain was closer to its full adult size than any other organ in our body!And......that your brain stopped growing at age 18.
11.Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain.
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