Did you know?
Our nerve pathways measure a total of 5.8 million kilometers – this could span the earth 145 times.
Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain at about 270 kilometers per hour.
The world’s highest-resolution brain scan of a living human was done by scientists at the University of Magdeburg in 2017.
The human brain weighs about 2 percent of our body weight, but consumes nearly 20 percent of the body`s energy.
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