Fascinating Facts about the Human BRAIN:

1.. Music lessons have shown to considerably boost BRAIN organization and ability in both children and adults..

2.. The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,,000..

3.. Those,, who are left-handed or ambidextrous have a corpus collosum (the part of the BRAIN that bridges the two halves) that is about 11% larger than those who are right-handed..

4.. According to a study by Bristol-Myers Squibb,, accountants have the highest incidence of on-the-job headaches,, followed by librarians,, then bus and truck drivers..

5.. Aristotle mistakenly thought that the functions of the BRAIN actually took place in the heart..

6.. Some research shows that humans carry genes that help protect the BRAIN from prion diseases,, or diseases contracted through eating human flesh,, leading medical experts to believe that ancient humans may have eaten other humans..

7.. The word "BRAIN" appears 66 times in the plays of William Shakespeare..