BRAIN FACTS

BRAIN FACTS :-)

• The weight of your brain is about 3 pounds and your skin weighs twice that
• There are no receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain
• The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consist at least 60% fat
• Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen in your body
• As with oxygen, your brain uses 20% of the blood circulating in your body

INTERESTING BRAIN FACTS :—)

• Laughing at a joke requires activity in 5 different areas of the brain
• The word 'brain' appears 66 times in the plays of William Shakespear
• The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.

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