24 Amazing Facts About The Human Brain
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You have over 100,000 miles of axons in your brain. That's enough to wrap around the world 4 times.
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Ancient people thought the stomach and heart to be more important than the brain. Egyptians even pulled parts of the brain out through the nose before mummifying bodies
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At any given time your brain can generate up to 25 watts of power. That's enough to power a lightbulb.
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Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 created a drawing that became known as a homunculus, which shows what we would look like if our body parts were as big as the brain space they take up.
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Brain surgery is not something new. In the past some cultures practiced trepanation, or the act of drilling holes in the brain to alleviate pain and cure sickness
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Contrary to popular belief you don't only use 10 of your brain. Most of your brain is active all the time, even when you sleep.
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Despite the common myth that large brains equal more smarts, people like Einstein actually had a smaller brain
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Experts estimate that over the course of a lifetime human brains of the 21st century will retain up to 1 quadrillion pieces of information
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This is why doctors are able to perform open brain surgery on patients that are still awake.
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Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 created a drawing that became known as a homunculus, which shows what we would look like if our body parts were as big as the brain space they take up.
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Your brain was just about as big as it is now when you were born. That's one reason that babies have disproportionately large heads.
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Your brain accounts for about 2 of your mass but uses up to a quarter of your oxygen and energy
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