In honor of National Train Your Brain Day, we offer a wrinkly gray FactSlaps, Walter White remix:
- Lack of oxygen in the brain for 5 to 10 minutes results in permanent brain damage.
- Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.
New brain connections are created every time you form a memory.
- Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
- There’s a virus that attacks human DNA making people less intelligent, impairing brain activity, learning and memory.
- When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
- Violent homes have the same effect on children’s brains as combat on soldiers.
- You have taste receptors in the stomach, intestines, pancreas, lungs, anus, testicles and the brain.
- The human brain has the same consistency as tofu.
- The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
- Forgetting is good for the brain: Deleting unnecessary information helps the nervous system retain its plasticity.