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The human brain is made up about 75% water and consists of about a hundred billion neurons

The human brain is the fattest organ in the body that may consists of at least 60% fat. Amazingly, human skin weighs twice as much as human brain. While an elephant's brain is physically larger than a human brain, the human brain is 2% of total body weight( compared to 0.15% of an elephant's brain), which means that humans have the largest brain to body size

There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain. While awake, human brain generates between 10 to 23 watts of power which could be enough energy to power a light bulb. It is thought that a yawnworks to send more oxygon to the brain either to cool it down or wake it up. The human brain uses 20% of the total oxygon as well as uses 20% of the blood circulating in human body

A stimulating environment for a child can make the difference between a 25% greater ability to learn and 25% less in an environment with little stimulation. Music lessons have shown to considerably boost brain organization and ability in both children and adults. Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development. The study indicates that learning new things helps the human brain to change very quickly

Every part of the brain has a known function. Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the human brain. Excessive stress has shown to alter brain cells, brain structure and brain function

Scientists have discovered that men and women's brains react differently to pain, which explains why they may perceive or discuss pain differently. There is a class of people known as super-tasters who not only have more taste buds on the tongue, but whose brain is more sensitive to the tastes of foods and drinks. In fact, they can detect some flavors that others cannot

Memory is formed by associations, so to remember things one should creat associations to recall. Anomia is the technical word for tip-of-the-tongue syndrome when you can almost remember a word, but it just won't come out. During sleep at night memories from the whole day are consolidated and lack of sleep may actually hurt the ability to create new memories, Insulin works to regulate blood-sugar in the body, but recently, scientists have discocered that its presence in the brain also helps promote memory

Most people dream about an hour or two at night and have an average of 4 to 7 dreams each night. Studies show that brain waves are more active while dreaming than when awake. Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten. If someone awakes during a dream, it is much more likely to remember the dream if one slept until a full night's sleep. Since dreams are more than just visual images, so blind people do dream. Whether or not they dream in pictures depends on if they were born blind or lost their vision later. If someone is snoring, they are not dreaming

Each time humans blink, their brain kicks in and keeps things illuminated so the whole world doesn't go dark each time they blink, which is about twenty million times a day

A study of one million students in New York showed that students who ate lunches that did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes did  14 % better on IQ tests than students who ate lunches with these additives. A report described how people in a 7-year study who ate sea food at least once  every week had a 30% lower occurrence of dementia