Your brain is about 2 percent of your total body weight but uses 40% of your bodies energy

Because your brain shuts off the visual cortex signal very briefly every time your eyes move, you're blind for two hours a day

The human brain is the fattiest organ in the body

The brain is made up of about 60% water.

An average human brain weighs 1.3kg

Your brain can survive without oxygen for four to six minutes before it starts to die

1000 to 10000 = the number of synapses for each neuron in your brain

Each person has far fewer brain cells at birth than in adulthood

A newborn's brain triples its size in the first year of life

Keep exercising your brain, because mental activity stimulates the creation of new neurons throughout your whole life.

Eating a healthy diet prevents your brain cells from early death but does not improve IQ test results.

New brain connections are created early in life and become fixed as an adult

Sleep is vital for a healthy human but the function of sleep is unknown

Humans only use 10 percent of their brain capacity.