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• The brain makes up about 2% of body weight but consumes 20% of caloric intake. It uses 20% of the oxygen supply and around 30% of the blood supply. Every single minute, about a quart of blood flows through the brain. The blood vessels in the adult human body would stretch about 100,000 miles if laid end-to-end. Of those, 400 miles are located in the brain. • The brain is made of 60% fat and cholesterol, making it the fattiest organ in the body. Cholesterol is an integral part of every brain cell because the fatty acids in cholesterol are crucial for the brain’s performance. About 25% of the body’s cholesterol resides within the brain. Without adequate cholesterol, brain cells die. • 73% of the brain is composed of water, which means that if you get dehydrated by more than 2%, you can suffer from a loss in attention, cognitive skills, and memory. The human brain weighs about 3 lbs., but if all the water were squeezed out of it, it would weigh only 10 oz. • The brain will start to lose consciousness after about 10 seconds without oxygen and will die of oxygen starvation after about 5 minutes. • The human brain can generate about 23 watts of power, enough to power a lightbulb.

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• The human brain will triple in size in the first year of life, which is why early childhood development is so critical. It continues to grow until about the age of 18. After middle age, the brain decreases in physical size as time passes. • The size of a brain doesn’t mean anything. There is no evidence that a larger brain is smarter than a smaller brain.

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• Small birds have a larger brain-to-body ratio than man with the brain accounting for 1/12th of the body weight. • Still, the human brain is the largest brain of all vertebrates relative to body size. • You do have a left and right brain. That’s because it’s divided into two almost symmetrical, but not identical, hemispheres which are connected by a nerve bundle called the corpus callosum. • The brain is cross-wired: the left side controls muscles on the body’s right side. The right side of the brain controls the muscles of the left side. However, it’s only a myth that artistic people rely more on their right brain and that analytical people are more left-brained. ...continued

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• When it comes to multi-tasking, the brain cannot really concentrate on two things at once. What it can do is quickly toggle back and forth between tasks. However, doing so decreases the attention span, diminishes the ability to learn, short-circuits short-term memory, and causes a decline in mental performance. • Human brain tissue is soft and squishy, with a consistency of gelatin or tofu. • A psychologist tried some practical experiments on the hypothalamus. When stimulated, the hypothalamus gives rise to a powerful pleasurable sensation. He connected a small electrode to this “pleasure center” in a rat’s brain, arranged so that the rat could stimulate itself. That rat stimulated its hypothalamus up to 8,000 times an hour for hours or days at a time. The rat favored this over the exclusion of all else, even food, sex and sleep. • It’s known as “brain freeze” or an “ice cream headache.” The official term is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” which means “nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion,” a cluster of nerve cells in the parasympathetic nervous system. That’s the system responsible for regulating bodily functions that happen when the body is at rest including storing energy, digestion, secretion, slowing heart rate, etc. When you eat that slushie or ice cream cone, the temperature at the back of the throat changes very quickly. Two important arteries—the internal carotid artery, which brings blood into the brain, and the anterior cerebral artery, which is where brain tissue starts—are also located there. The brain likes to remain in a state of status quo. That includes its internal thermostat. So when those arteries get cold, they contract. The brain interprets that sensation as pain, and a quick but nasty headache results.

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• The proper name for the tailbone, coccyx, comes from the Greek word for the cuckoo bird, “kokkux” • The shinbone is called the tibia, a Latin word meaning because the curved shape of the bone resembles the “flute” because flutes were once made out of the tibia of bird’s beak. animals. • The lunula is the white, crescent-shaped area of the • The other major bone in the leg is the fibula, from the edge of your nails, just above your cuticle. “Lun” is Latin word meaning “clasp” or “brooch” because the the Latin root for moon, familiar in words like “lufibular clasps the tibia forming an attachment similar to nar.” The lunula isn’t always visible on every nail but is most often seen on your thumbs. a brooch.

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• On Oct. 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world's size, calculating that East Asia must lie about where North America sits on the globe. • On Oct. 17, 1906, Wilhelm Voigt, a German shoemaker wearing a stolen captain's uniform, impersonates an army officer and leads an entire squad of soldiers to help him steal 4,000 marks from the mayor's office cash box, exploiting their blind obedience to authority. The Kaiser thought the story was funny; the German army did not. • On Oct. 16, 1946, at Nuremberg, Germany, 10 highranking Nazi officials are executed by hanging for their crimes during World War II after they were found guilty by the International War Crimes Tribunal.

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• On Oct. 13, 1957, the science-fiction thriller "The Amazing Colossal Man" premieres in theaters. The film revolved around an Army officer who began to grow uncontrollably after he strayed too close to an atomic blast in the Nevada desert. • On Oct. 14, 1968, the U.S. Defense Department announces that the Army and Marines will be sending about 24,000 men back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours because of the length of the war. The decision badly hurt troop morale and the combat readiness of U.S. forces around the world. • On Oct. 11, 1975, "Saturday Night Live," a comedy sketch show, makes its debut on NBC, with George Carlin as its host, and Billy Preston and Janis Ian as musical guests. Since its inception, SNL has featured a different guest host and musical act each week. • On Oct. 15, 1991, after a bitter confirmation hearing, the U.S. Senate votes 52 to 48 to confirm Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. President George Bush had nominated the 43-year-old Thomas, an African American judge known for his conservative beliefs. ©2021 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• The hyoid bone, which anchors the tongue, is the only bone in the body not attached to any other bone. Instead it’s attached to muscles, ligaments, and cartilage. • Humans have just as many hairs on their body as chimpanzees, but human hair is shorter and finer. • Synovial fluid, which lubricates joints, is the most frictionless stuff on the planet. • A pregnant woman can grow a new human being faster than most missing toenails can grow back. • Every minute over 30,000 dead skin cells shed off the body. • You will die for lack of sleep within 2 weeks. • Human eggs are small but big enough to be visible to the human eye. They are also the largest cell in the human body. The sperm is the smallest cell. • The surface area of the lungs is about the same size as a tennis court. Many people imagine lungs as balloons while they are more like a sponge. • Babies don’t get knee caps until they are several years old. • A healthy heart doesn't need a body to beat. As long as it has an oxygenated blood supply it will just keep beating with or without a human body. • The chance of a natural pregnancy with identical triplets is 1 in 200,000,000. • The appendix is not a vestigial organ with an unknown purpose. It actually protects and replenishes good bacteria in the gut. • Your fingernails do not actually continue to grow after you die. • The proportion of your vision that is actually in sharp focus roughly equates to the size of your thumbnail at arm’s length. The rest of it is just your visual cortex filling in the blanks. ...cont'd

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• 85% of all of your cells are red blood cells. Bone marrow pumps out about 2.4 million of them every second. Each one contains about 270 million hemoglobin molecules which each carry 4 molecules of oxygen. It takes about 60 seconds for a blood cell to circulate through the body. • Baby girls are born with all of their eggs. • The heart smells like mushrooms. • Fat cells don’t multiply, but instead the cells just increase in size. • In the early development of a fetus, everyone starts out female. Then some turn into male later on, which is why males have nipples. • The skeleton accounts for about 12% of total body weight. • All blue-eyed people can be traced back to one common ancestor. • There are no muscles in the fingers. The muscles that move the fingers are located in the forearm, and are attached to the tendons that move the fingers. • The eyes are about 85% their adult size at birth. • Your skin is the largest organ you have. • The forearm from elbow to wrist is about the same length as the foot. • You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day. • You have about 100,000 hairs on your head. • You hate the sound of your recorded voice because it’s missing the low frequency you’re used to hearing. When you talk, you hear your voice as it goes through the air and back to you ear. It also goes through your skull to your ear, and this bone conduction mechanism transmits the low frequencies better than air does. Your recorded voice only has the sound transmitted by air. That causes the dissonance between what you think your voice sounds like, and what it really does. Locally Owned

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