Facts about the brain.

Facts about Human Brain

Human brain is the most mysterious thing ever known. Various experiments and tests are being performed to understand it well from a long time. God is the biggest engineer. His creations are far beyond our understandings and imaginations. One of those creations is Brain. Let’s have a look at some interesting facts about Human Brain. Feel free to share your views with us via comments below.

Some Stats about Human Brain:

• Weight of Human Brain is 3 pounds.
• If brain doesn’t get air for 4-6 minutes, it will start to die.
• Number of neurons in Brain is 100 million.
• Number of synapses for each neuron in Human brain is 1,000-10,000.
• Brain constitutes 80 % water.

Some Interesting Facts about Human Brain:

Storage capacity of Human Brain is between 3 and 1,000 Terabytes.

Yes, Scientists believe that a normal functioning brain can store 5 times information than Encyclopedia Britannica which is of 70 TB in size.

Human Brain uses 20% of the Oxygen that enters the Bloodstream.

Brain is such a small portion of body that it makes only 2% of body mass; still it uses 20% of oxygen.

Brain is more active at night than day.

This is strange. Even scientists don’t know the exact reason yet. But this is true. This is the reason why solutions of some difficult problems that you couldn’t solve strike you during sleep.

• Number of neurons in brain keeps growing throughout life.
• People with great I.Q have more dreams during night.
• Brain doesn’t have pain receptors. It doesn’t feel pain.

You must have wondered, why you laugh when someone tickles you but you don’t laugh when you tickle yourself. This is due to your smart brain; it knows that you are tickling. So, it doesn’t react.

Have proper lunch for a better IQ.

Various studies in New York concluded that those who have proper and healthy lunch perform 14% better in IQ tests.

You are virtually paralyzed during sleep.

Brain creates a hormone when you sleep that prevents your body to act your dream.