Interesting Facts

•The human skull contains 22 bones.

•Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.

•The brain stops growing at age 15, but learning never stops.

•The spinal cord and nerves— known as the nervous system— let messages flow back and forth between the brain and the body.

•We actually “see” with our brains; the eye is basically a camera.

•The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

•The average person has 32 teeth.

•Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

•Your thumb is the same length as your nose.