Amazing Human Brain Facts

Human brain is the most vital and complex organ in the human body and is the most complex creation in the entire universe. Brain plays the most important role in our lives for remembering things, analysing, calculating, detecting the emotions of human body, controlling the senses and most importantly, it is the head quarter of central nervous system (CNS). According to Salk Institute in La Jolla, California research, human brain is capable to hold as much information in its memory as it is contained in the entire world internet.

Shocking isn’t it? Well, that’s true. Our brain has many shocking and amazing facts that we even don’t know and here are some gathered brain facts to share with you people. Let’s get started.

• Human feeling originate initially from the human brain. May be this is the reason why love originates in brain not heart and it takes mere 4 minutes to fall in love.
• The human brain spends maximum time in replaying the memories that try to relieve them.
• People who are more creative in their approach and activities are more likely to suffer from anxiety.
• Lack of oxygen in the brain for just 5-10 minutes can permanently damage your brain.
• One of the amazing facts of human brain is it generates about 12-25 watts of electricity which is enough to light a LED bulb.
• An average brain generates around 50,000 thoughts per day from which 70% are negative thoughts.
• In every second, more than 100,000 chemical reactions take place in human brain.

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• Human brain keeps developing until they hit their late 40s.
• Human brain uses 20% of the total blood and oxygen in the human body.
• Human brain has same texture and consistency as tofu.
• The amount of dopamine released during orgasm in human brain is similar to the brain on the effect of heroine.
• It only takes 6 minutes for a human brain and the brain cells to reach to alcohol.
• When humans learn something new the brain structure changes.
• Humans have more brain cells as a new born baby than its entire lifespan.
• In year 2015, world’s 4th most powerful supercomputer took 40 minutes simulate just one single second of human brain activity. Shocking yet amazing fact, isn’t it?
• Half of human brain can be surgically removed without any apparent effect on human personality and memory.
• Human brain has enough memory to store three million hours of television.
• Human brain has 100 billion neurons making it world’s most powerful learning tool.
• A living human brain is so soft that it can be cut with a butter knife.
• Yawning is the natural human body process to cool down the overheated brain.

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