interesting new facts about the brain

Here are 5 interesting new facts about the brain that you would never know.

1. The brain is approximately 75% water, but you should never drink it.
2. Your brain only weighs about 3lbs yet the greedy bastard uses between 20% and 25% of your energy supplies each day.
3. There are approximately 10 to the power of 60 atoms in the universe.
4. Your brain laughs in the face of that figure however, as it has 10 to the power of 1,000,000 different ways it can wire itself up.
5. That’s the number 10 followed up with 1 million zeroes, which is to all intents and purposes (for anybody not called Stephen Hawking or Rob Collins), an infinite amount of ways.
6. Speaking of large numbers, there are approximately 1.1 trillion cells and 100 billion neurons in the average human brain.
7. The slowest speed information passes around your brain is approximately 260 mph