Amazing facts about human brain:
* Your brain is 80% water.
* Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.
* The weight of your brain is approximately 3 pounds.
* Without oxygen, your brain can survive 4 to 6 minutes.
* It takes 8 to 10 seconds for a person to loose consciousness due to blood loss.
* There are 100,000 miles of vessels in your brain.
* There are 1000 to 10,000 synapses for each neurones in your brain.
* Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
* Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
* It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
* The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
* From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
* Children who learn two languages before the age of five alters the brain structure and adults have a much denser gray matter.
* Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you are creating a new connection in your brain.
* The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
* The brain has no pain receptors.
* It's not your brain that's hurting when you get a headache – without pain receptors, your brain can't feel any pain.
* Your brain knows when you tickle yourself, which is why you don’t bend over laughing.
* Supertasters have a super power that enables them to sometimes taste flavours that others can’t detect; they have more taste buds and a brain that’s more sensitive to tastes of foods and drinks.
* When you sleep, you’re virtually paralyzed because your brain creates a hormone to prevent you from acting out your dreams.
* About 12% of people dream in black and white.
* It’s not true that humans only use 10% of their brains; each part of the brain has a purpose.
* New connections are created each and every time you remember something or have a new thought.
* Stronger, more intense emotional connections are linked to memories prompted by scent.
* Memories triggered by scent (like cologne) have a stronger emotional connection, and therefore appear more intense than other memory triggers.
