1.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.
2.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
3.Experts estimate that over the course of a lifetime human brains of the 21st century will retain up to 1 quadrillion pieces of information
4.A woman’s brain shrinks during pregnancy and takes up to 6 months to regain its size
5. Humans have more brain cells at the age of two than at any other point in their lives
6.There are more than 100,000 chemical reactions happening in your brain every second
7.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.
8.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
9. The highest IQ every recorded is Kim Ung-yong of South Korea at 210
10.You could survive with only 1 side of your brain
11.It can also play tricks on you. Square A and B are actually the same color.
12.Your brain accounts for about 2% of your mass but uses up to a quarter of your oxygen and energy
13.Your brain is actually more active while you are sleeping
14.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.
15.Information can fly around your brain at 260 mph
16.You have roughly 70,000 thoughts every day
17.And it has the same consistency as tofu
18.Your brain continues to develop until your late 40s
