2. The brain represents about 2% of our total body weight. It is roughly 140 mm wide, 167mm long and 93mm high.

3. Our brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the universe.

4. If we could harness the power used by our brain, we could power as a 10-watt light bulb.

5. Our brain consists of about 100 billion neurons. That’s about 166 times the number of people on the planet. It would take you approximately 171 years to count them all.

6. Our brain uses approximately 20% of the total oxygen pumping around our body.  About 750 ml of blood pumps through our brain every minute.

7. All of our “thinking” is done by electricity and unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain.

8. Our brain consists of 60% white matter and 40% grey matter.

9. Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Transmission can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec. Traveling at 120 meters/sec is the same as going 268 miles/hour.

10. When we were born, our brain weighed about 350-400 g and we had almost all the brain cells we will ever have. In fact, our brain was closer to its full adult size than any other organ in your body. The brain stopped growing at age 18.

11. The human brain is approximately 75% water.

12. The number of internal thought pathways that our brain is capable of producing is 10.5 million kilometers of standard typewritten zero’s.

13. Human brain is the most complex machine in the universe - it has over 100,000,000, 000 nerve cells each with up to 150,000 connections. Each cell is connected to 25,000 others.

14. In right-handed individuals, who comprise 91% of people,  the right side of the brain controls  musical talent, fantasy, imagination, dreams, drawing, and painting. The left side of the brain controls mathematical ability, ability to solve logical problems, controls language skills, remembers names, dates, and facts.