Amazing things about the human brain

A BBC 1 human body discovery program revealed 10 surprising facts about the brain - the most complex organ in our body.

Illustrated image slices across the human brain. Photo: Telegraph.

- The brain is the most sophisticated thing ever known in the world.

- The human brain is so sophisticated that it takes nearly 20 years to mature.

- Since birth, humans have all the necessary brain cells later.

- Every second, the human body produces 8,000 new brain cells.

- On average, every brain cell makes 10,000 connections to other brain cells.

- When in the womb, the child is only able to see things in white or black. However, their eyes are sensitive enough to notice faint light through the mother's abdomen.

- Newborns can recognize the mother's face just hours after being born.

- The balance and coordination of the body's activities is extremely complicated because the number of cells in the brain that serve this task is as much as the number of brain cells in all the rest added.

- People wink 20 times / minute. Each wink lasts only about half a second but the total time people live in the darkness is more than an hour each day.

- Young Thai drivers have trained their eyes to concentrate in the water by contracting the iris of the eye. All children can develop this skill if they practice from a young age.