Useless facts of the day...

Originally posted by les5269 Did you know women blink almost twice as much as men (it could be they're flashing their eyelashes at us blokes! )

Davina Bristow of the UCL Institute of Neurology says: ¡§Blinking is necessary to keep the surfaces of the eyes moist. Most people blink around 15 times a minute and a blink lasts on average 100-150 milliseconds, which means that overall we spend at least 9 days per year blinking."

So it follows women spend around double the time of men being awake but with their brains activity shut down...... a little over 9 days per year.

I suprised actually - I thought it would be more.

Consider this:It is estimated that the mental capacity of a 100-year old human with perfect memory could be represented by computer with 10 to the power of 15 bits (one petabit). At the current rate of computer chip development, that figure can be reached in about 35 years. However, that represents just memory capacity, not the extremely complex processes of thought creation and emotions.

An average adult male brain weighs 1375 gram (49oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev, weighed 2021g (71oz), Bismarck's brain weighed 1807g (64oz), while that of famous French statesman Gambetta was only 1294g (46oz). Women's brains are slightly smaller than men's. The largest woman's brain recorded weighed 1742g (60oz). - I personally believe this is an ev olutionary adaptation to make the head lighter thus making nodding in frantic agreement with other female friends less tiring when they speak at length about 'what they said'.