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Brain Intro Fun Facts
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1
The brain uses approx. how much of the body's energy?
50%
45%
20%
70%
2
How many thoughts do humans have each day?
Approx. 700,000
Approx. 20,000
Approx. 70,000
Over 1 million
3
Why do you not laugh when you tickle
yourself?
Your brain knows it is you
Our sensory neurons turn off
We do laugh when we tickle ourselves
We make a conscious effort not to laugh
4
The average human brain weighs approx. how many pounds?
10
1
8
3
5
On average, your spinal cord (carries messages from brain to body/body to brain) stops growing around age 4.
True
False
6
Events that are linked to which sense are more likely to be stored in long term memory?
touch
taste
smell
sight
7
60% of your brain if made up of fat
False
True
8
You only use 10% of your brain according to Northwestern Medicine
False
True
9
How long can the human brain survive without oxygen before it starts to die?
more than 5 minutes
up to 1 minute
up to 2 minutes
we don't know
10
Our brains will not be fully developed until we are approx. ______ years old.
18
16
24
40
