Brain Facts

    56 facts tagged with Brain Facts

    There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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    On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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    On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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    An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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    Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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    The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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    Starfish don't have brains.
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