Intresting Facts About Your Brain!

Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy, but it makes up only 2% of your body's weight. Here are other interesting facts about our brain:

Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain!

Your brain consists of 60% white matter and 40% grey matter

Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons (about 166 times the number of people on the planet!)

Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy

The human brain is approximately 75% water

Your brain stopped growing at age 18

Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain

Your brain is divided into two sides. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body; and, the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body.

A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times in course of first year

Each person has about the same number of brain cells at birth as in adulthood, but those cells grow, reaching maximum size at about age six.

The sense of touch is the first sense to develop in a fetus

Your brain knows when you tickle yourself, which is why you don’t bend over laughing.

It’s not true that humans only use 10% of their brains; each part of the brain has a purpose.

Yawning keeps you awake allowing large amounts of air to pass into our lungs; oxygen then enters our blood. Thus, making us more alert.