1. Signs of successful brain surgeries go as far back as the Stone Age.
2. The brain can not feel pain. It interprets pain signals sent to it, but it does not feel pain.
3. The brain comprises 60% of fact and is one of the fattest organs in the human body.
4. Nearly all colours have a physical wavelength associated with it, but the colour Magenta does not. Rather, your brain is simply processing the colour as “not green”.
5. You can actually improve your memory If you choose to eat seafood regularly. The fatty acids in these foods improve the memory storing parts of your brain.
6. During sleep, your body produces a hormone that prevents you from getting up and acting out your dreams. Five minutes after a dream, your body has already forgotten half of it and ten minutes later it is 90% gone from your memory.
7. Human experience 70,000 thoughts each day.
8. Your brain generates about 12-25 watts of electricity. This is enough to power a low wattege LED light bulb.
9. Brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake with no pain or discomfort. The brain has not pain receptors and feels no pain.
10. The attention spans of human brains are getting shorter. We have lost four seconds of our attention span in the past 15 years. This means we cannot concentrate on one thing for more than eight seconds on an average.
11. Your brain is sometimes more active when you are asleep than when you are awake.
12. The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes hard drive.
13. A single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined.
14. The average person forgets 90% of their dreams.
15. By the end of a person’s life, they can recall, on average, around 150 trillion pieces of information.
16. A passionate kiss causes the same chemical reactions in the brain that skydiving and firing a gun do.
17. 100,000 chemical reactions occur in the human brain every second.
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