<ul><li>The brain doesn't have pain receptors, so it can't feel exterior pain.</li><li>The average brain is believed to generate up to 50,000 thoughts per day.</li><li>Your brain has an autopilot setting allows us to perform common tasks like driving without actively thinking about them.</li><li>Your brain never sleeps while you're asleep, your brain is busy performing maintenance.</li><li>When a person dies, they have 7 minutes of brain activity left.</li></ul>

What are the most mind-blowing facts about the human brain?

Mind-blowing facts

<ul><li>Your brain's storage capacity is virtually unlimited.</li><li>The human brain contains 80-100 billion neurons.</li><li>More than 100,000 chemical reactions take place in the brain every second.</li><li>The human brain is the only object of any kind that can contemplate itself.</li><li>The human brain weighs approximately about 1.4 kilograms (3 pounds).</li><li>The human brain can generate about 23 watts of power (enough to power a lightbulb).</li><li>Sixty percent of the human brain is made of fat. That make it the fattiest organ in the human body.</li><li>The brain uses 20 percent of the body's total oxygen and energy.</li></ul>

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