The brain weighs about 3 pounds and it's about 75% water. Humans have the largest brain to body size ratio. It doesn't grow much from the size it was at birth and stops growing when you're about 18
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Your brain keeps developing into your late 40s with new brain connections forming every time you add a memory. The human brain is comprised of about 100 billion neurons and a trillion glial cells
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The brain uses 20% of the blood and oxygen your body produces. Lack of oxygen to the brain for 5-10 minutes causes permanent brain damage
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60% of your brain is fat and, according to some scientists, dieting can cause your brain to eat itself
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Male brains have a volume that is 8-13% larger than females. This doesn't equate to higher intelligence but does make it inexcusable to be an idiot
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In 2015, a supercomputer required 40 minutes of processing time to simulate just one second of human brain activity
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The brain itself has no pain receptors
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Albert Einstein's brain was proportionately 35% wider in the area responsible for math and spatial perception than the average human brain, even though his overall brain size was 10% smaller than aver
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The brain releases dopamine during orgasm in a high enough amount that, when scanned, resembles the brain of a person in a heroine high. Music also releases dopamine. Don't do drugs, you have at least
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There are brain parasites that some scientists contend could make a "zombie apocalypse" a real possibility
