Brain Facts:
Your brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).

Your brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

There are 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for your “typical” neuron.

Total surface area of your cerebral cortex is about 2500 sq. cm.

Unconsciousness occurs 10 seconds after loss of blood supply.

You have 12 pairs of cranial nerves.

You have 31 pairs of spinal nerves.

Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons/minute during early pregnancy.

There are about 13,500,000 neurons in your spinal cord.

If you were educated in the Western world your brain software–logic, developed by the Greeks (Aristotle, Plato, Socrates etc)–is 2500 years old.

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