1. Your hair contains traces of gold
2. The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.Yep—your thinking cap is the fattiest organ in your body, consisting of a minimum of 60 percent fat. This is why a diet rich in healthy fats, such as omega-3s and omega-6s, is vital for brain and overall body health.
"Fat stabilizes the cell walls in the brain and carries, absorbs, and stores fat-soluble vitamins in your
bloodstream," explains Brock. "It also reduces inflammation and helps the immune system
regulate and function properly."
3. The brain has more cell types than any other tissue in our body.
Unlike the liver or certain muscles in our body where most of the cells are the same type, the brain is composed of a variety of complicated, interconnected types of cells, one being neurons, explains Hermona Soreq, PhD, professor of molecular neuroscience at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. Try these morning brain boosters to stay sharp all day.
4. When you're awake, your brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
According to computer scientists at Stanford University, a robot with a processor that is virtually as intelligent as the human brain would need at least 10 megawatts of electricity to work properly. "Neurons in the brain do make enough electricity to run a light bulb —100 billions of cells generate this amount of energy," explains Brock. And the brain works fast, too—so fast that it's speedier than the world's greatest computer. "The information going to your brain from your arms and legs travels at 150 miles per hour."
5. Your brain's storage capacity is virtually unlimited.
There's no such thing as knowing too much—or learning so much that you can't retain any more information (though it can certainly feel that way after sitting through a long board meeting). "Your brain doesn't get 'used up' like the data storage in your computer or smartphone," says Dr. Krieff. "There is endless brain power! Although lack of sleep can affect your brain's ability to create more memories."
6. Exercise is just as good for your brain as it is for your body .Professional athletes know how important fueling their brain is to ensure they're able to put maximum effort and energy into their workouts. "This is because of the mental stimulation that comes with exercise, but also because a healthy cardiovascular system means better plumbing for the brain," says Wingeier. Especially when you try a new fitness class or regimen for the first time, your brain is working hard at learning .
Living creatures
1. Blue whale hearts weigh almost a ton and beat once every 10 seconds.
2. A dog’s sense of smell is so good that
it can detect a
teaspoon of sugar in a million gallons of water,
or two Olympic-sized pools.
3. Don’t like mosquitos? Get a bat. They eat 3,000 insects a night.
4. Elephants make friends,
bury their dead, travel for ‘funerals’, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence.
5.
25% of all mammal species on Earth are bats.There are a whopping 1,200 different types of bat!.They range in size from a Bumblebee Bat – the world’s smallest mammal – all the way up to the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Bat which has a huge wingspan of almost 6 foot!
6. Jellyfish are 95% water.Not surprising, given that they have no brain, no blood and no heart!
The other 5% is made up of what little solid mass jellyfish possess.
7. Sharks are older than trees.
Sharks have been about on this planet for roughly
400 million years, which is about 50 million
years longer than trees!
8. An ant can’t die from falling.
Because of their incredibly small weight and rock-hard exoskeleton, an ant’s terminal velocity isn’t enough to harm it upon impact.
Simply put, they could survive being dropped from heights like the Empire State Building and walk away unscathed.
9. Armadillos have shells so hard they can deflect a bullet.
One poor Texan man learned this the hard way when he shot at an armadillo only to have the bullet ricochet off the indestructible be7ast, and back at him into his jaw! The man was airlifted to hospital.In China, the police use geese as sentries.In many parts of rural China, police have opted to use geese as police animals as they are highly alert and capable of making lots of noise
Astro-space
THE TERM "ASTRONAUT" COMES FROM GREEK WORDS THAT MEAN "STAR" AND "SAILOR."
1. Even your tears won't fall at space
Whether it's tears or plain old water, the weightless atmosphere in space causes liquid to adhere to a surface rather than fall. When it comes to tears, they'll just form bubbles around your eyes.
2. All astronauts going to the International Space Station have to learn how to speak Russian.
This is because astronauts traveling to the ISS m?ust hitch a ride with Russian cosmonauts, and the controls of their Soyuz spacecraft are in Russian.
The first British astronaut to go to the ISS, Commander Tim Peake said “Learning Russian has been the single most difficult aspect of my training”!
3. Soviet Cosmonauts took shotguns to space with them.
This wasn’t to fight off any capitalist aliens they might encounter in space…
It was for when they returned to Earth in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off hungry bears.
Solar system
1. The sun makes up 99.8 percent of our solar system.”
2. Shadows are darker on the Moon
On Earth, the atmosphere scatters more sunlight, so our shadows aren’t too dark. But on the Moon, shadows are so dark that Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going. For more weird facts, don’t miss these other strange and spooky facts about the Moon.
3. Earth is slowing down.
In the days of the dinosaur, a day was only 23 hours long. That's due to the slowing of the Earth's rotation each century by roughly two milliseconds. In 1820, the Earth's rotation was 24 hours on the dot, notes NASA. Now, the Earth's rotation is off by 2.5 milliseconds.
4. There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year
5. AT ANY MOMENT,
CLOUDS COVER ABOUT 60 PERCENT OF EARTH
6. There is no specific time zone at the South Pole.
This is because all the longitude lines on the planet meet up there (because the planet isn’t flat, yo).
At Atomic level
1. “There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the entire earth.”
By rough approximation, there are 1049 to 1050 atoms that make up Earth. To figure out how many combinations can be made from 52 cards, you simply have to multiply 52x51x50x49...etc. That means there are on the order of 1067 ways to shuffle a deck of cards!
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2. “Due to the electrons of your atoms repelling the electrons of other atoms, you never actually touch anything.”On an atomic level, we are all just kinda hovering around!
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Human Personality
1. Your addiction to your phone may reveal your emotional stability
Most of us are guilty of checking our phones when we're waiting in line at the grocery store, commuting to work, or even talking to friends.
Recent research reveals what it means if you're constantly staring at that screen. The 2015 study measured cell phone "addiction" by asking people how much they agreed with statements such as "I get agitated when my cell phone is not in sight" and "I spend more time than I should on my cell phone."
Results showed that emotional instability was a key predictor of cell-phone addiction.
Interestingly, the study also found that introverts--people who expressed feelings of shyness and bashfulness--were less likely to be addicted to their phones.
2. People get nicer as they get older
The three main changes to personality that occur, on average, with age are that people get:
- more conscientious,
- more agreeable,
- and less neurotic (moody).
3. You Reconstruct Your Memories
Memories as movies? — We tend to experience our memories of events like this as little movie clips that play back in our minds. And because we experience them this way we have a tendency to think that memories are stored in entirety and never change. But that’s not what happens.
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