The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
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When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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