Fun Facts
Carla Hannah
November, 2018
You can "see" through your ears
One study found that the part of the brain that's normally wired to work with our eyes can instead rewire itself to process sound information instead of visual perception in people who are born blind. How crazy is that?
You can’t tickle yourself because your cerebellum prevents you from doing so!
The cerebellum, which is responsible for physical movement, can predict the sensation and prevent a response
Brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake with no pain or discomfort.
The brain has no pain receptors and feels no pain!
There is 2,500,000 gigabytes of storage space in your brain!
(An iPhone 7 has 256!)
Your brain generates about 12-25 watts of electricity.
This is enough to power a low wattage LED light bulb!
If you laid out all of the blood vessels in your brain end-to-end, they would stretch halfway to the moon (about 120,000 miles)
Feeling tired? Go ahead and yawn. Yawning cools down the brain, research suggests. Sleep deprivation raises brain temperature.
Carla Hannah
November, 2018
You can "see" through your ears
One study found that the part of the brain that's normally wired to work with our eyes can instead rewire itself to process sound information instead of visual perception in people who are born blind. How crazy is that?
You can’t tickle yourself because your cerebellum prevents you from doing so!
The cerebellum, which is responsible for physical movement, can predict the sensation and prevent a response
Brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake with no pain or discomfort.
The brain has no pain receptors and feels no pain!
There is 2,500,000 gigabytes of storage space in your brain!
(An iPhone 7 has 256!)
Your brain generates about 12-25 watts of electricity.
This is enough to power a low wattage LED light bulb!
If you laid out all of the blood vessels in your brain end-to-end, they would stretch halfway to the moon (about 120,000 miles)
Feeling tired? Go ahead and yawn. Yawning cools down the brain, research suggests. Sleep deprivation raises brain temperature.
