Amazing Facts About Brain Page 7 of 7

Amazing Fact 61# 

Don’t be too hard on the cerebellum though because it controls your balance and without it you’d make a drunken, 3-legged donkey on an ice skating rink look like an Olympic gymnast.
 

Amazing Fact 62# 

If you get really annoyed or angry, your limbic system has taken over your critical thinking and it can actually become impossible to access higher reasoning. Which is why some people can go postal and nothing anybody can say can calm them down.
 

Fortunately if you remove the source of their anger, the Limbic system returns to normal after about 20 minutes. So don’t count to 10 when you’re mad, count to 1,200!
 

Amazing Fact 63# 

It is thought that the brain issues the command to cry as a way of alerting others that we are in distress. It is also thought that crying is the body’s way of eliminating potentially harmful proteins and hormones, so maybe a good cry really does do you good.

Amazing Fact 64# 

When we get embarrassed we blush and some people then blush even more when they realize they are blushing, but do you know why the brain issues the instruction to the veins in your face to dilate? No, neither do I and nor do scientists. Like hiccupping, there is no known reason or benefit.
 

Amazing Fact 65# 

Unless you have done this test before, you’ll probably fail miserably at counting the F’s in the following sentence:
 

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
 

There are actually six ‘F’s’ but your brain will have struggled to spot the ones in the word ‘of’ as it tends to disregard that word for reasons best known to itself.
 

Amazing Fact 66# 

Your brain is so soft that you could probably spread it on toast if you were completely insane and liked eating human brains and dying all at the same time.
 

Amazing Fact 67# 

When it comes to the brain, SIZE MATTERS. The stegosaurus brain was about the size of a walnut. The adult human brain weighs about 1,300 to 1,400 grams. The average cat brain weighs only about 30 grams, which is why they’re really not that very curious at all, they just sometimes seem that way when balls of wool are involved.
 

Amazing Fact 68# 

Worryingly 70% of college football players get at least one concussion per year. Concussions are not to be sniffed at or taken lightly because they are cumulative and can potentially lead to depression, suicidal thoughts and dementia later in life.
 

Amazing Fact 69# 

After about the age of 25 and just as we reach peak development, the brain starts slowly shrinking. Some research has suggested that the male brain shrinks faster than the female one (not a surprise to the female population).
 

Amazing Fact 70# 

When whole body scans are performed on people, the brain is so active, compared to the rest of the body, that it looks like a small, powerful heater, while everything else appears almost ghostlike.