40 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Brain

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Eating dark chocolate is actually good for your brain, it promotes the systems that pump dopamine, one of the most important brain chemicals.

So next time you’re feeling down about the latest boy band break up, or whatever, buy some dark chocolate and you might actually cheer up from something other than decadence.

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Your brain has over 100,000 miles of axons bunched up in your head, this is enough axons to wrap around the equator four times. While we’re on the subject, an axon is the technical name for nerve fibre.

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There’s also 100,000 chemical reactions going on in your brain every second, all of those reactions have lead you to here, watching a YouTube video that includes the words ‘anus snack wrap’ in it.

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When you’re dreaming your brain is just as active as it is when you’re awake, which makes sense because it has to work really hard to convince itself that yes it’s completely normal for that clown to have three faces and twelve nipples, haven’t you ever seen a clown before?

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Information can travel through your brain at a blazing 420 kilometres per hour, however this is still slower than the fastest car in the world, but then who wants to drive a car that travels faster than you can possibly think? That can only end in bloodshed.

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(disclaimer: this isn’t him)


Kim Ung-yong has the highest IQ on the planet with a score of around 210, however, IQ scores have a questionable value at best as a brain’s capabilities can’t be simplified down to a numeric grading.

This doesn’t mean that Ung-yong isn’t a genius, since he could read Japanese Korean, German, English and many other languages at the age of three.

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Brain tissue has a consistency that’s very similar to tofu, I mean, it’s not like I eat brains or anything, but if you want to send yours in the mail I wouldn’t say no to a snack.

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If you diet too heavily your brain will cannibalise itself, so if you want to try out brain for yourself but are a vegetarian this is one way to try it out. However, be aware that this causes even more intense hunger, making it more likely that you would actually go full zombie.

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Pregnancy actually changes a woman’s brain in quite a few different ways, which is possibly the reason many women feel that they’re losing their mental astuteness.

The reason behind this is that in the first few months the brain drastically increases the progesterone levels, which acts as a sedative, causing a general daze.

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Another way pregnancy changes the brain is that it jacks up its sense of smell’s sensitivity so as to avoid eating foods that could harm the baby, this could also possibly be the reasoning behind the weird cravings that pregnant women get.

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