Facts you didn’t know about the Brain

There are lots of facts about the brain you didn’t know and here are some awesome facts about the brain.

  • The human brain is the largest brain of all vertebrates relative to body size.
  • It weighs about 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kilograms).
  • The average male has a brain volume of 1,274 cubic centimeters.
  • The average female brain has a volume of 1,131 cm3.
  • The brain makes up about 2 percent of a human’s body weight.
  • The cerebrum makes up 85 percent of the brain’s weight.
  • It contains about 86 billion nerve cells (neurons) — the “gray matter.”
  • It contains billions of nerve fibers (axons and dendrites) — the “white matter.”
  • These neurons are connected by trillions of connections, or synapses.

Those are some facts about the brain and there might be more facts about the brain that we don’t know yet and we might find more amazing facts about the brain later on in the future.

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