Facts about TOTAL RECALL
March 13th 2011 20:25
TOTAL RECALL
■ The storage capacity of the brain is virtually limitless – the estimated number of patterns nerve cells could form is 1 followed by 800 zeros.
■ Goldfish can retain memories that last for up to three months.
■ Japan's Akira Haraguchi has the record for reciting the number Pi from memory – to 83,431 decimal places.
■ The elephant has the longest memory of any member of the animal kingdom and can even remember where other elephants have died.
■ Marcel Proust's novel Remembrance of Things Past is the most famous literary exploration of the role of memory in a person's life.
■ Ben Pridmore from Derby is world memory champion – memorising the order of a shuffled deck of cards in 24.68 seconds.
■ Mahan Dulai, 11, is the UK's junior memory champion. He can remember 31 numbers, 40 faces and 44 random words in five minutes.
■ The Sinclair ZX81 computer, which went on sale 30 years ago, had a 1KB memory. You would need 50,000 of them to run iTunes.
■ Your brain runs on 12 watts of power – less than that use by a refrigerator light.
■ The average person is believed to have 70,000 thoughts a day.
George Benson
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Comment by Mountain Fog
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
it is annoyingly disturbing, I feel like I have to get new glasses, oh that's right, my brain is just a fridge light...that explains it...
cheers
fog