Shocking Science Facts About Brain

Your brain receives about 100 million pieces of information at

any one moment from your eyes, nose, ears, skin and                  

receptors inside your body.

Eating asparagus produces a chemical that makes urine smell

strongly, although not everyone can smell it. Lucky them!

A sneeze travels at 161 kilometres (100 miles) per hour.

A body left unburied in a tropical climate will be reduced to a skeleton in two weeks by the action of insects. People can be born with ears growing from their necks or chests. There are more bacteria in our mouth than there are people in the whole world!

Laughing seems to reduce a person’s allergic responses. So if you have hay fever, try laughing about it!

Around 10 per cent of the population is left-handed, but boys are one and a half times more likely to be left-handed than girls.  The bad smell of faeces comes from chemicals produced by bacteria that break down the food in your gut.

                            

Girls have more taste buds than boys.

                                                               Even though some dreams

                                                               seem to last ages while you

                                                               are experiencing them, they

                                                               generally only take about 2-3

                                                              seconds. Most people have at

                                                             least seven dreams a night.