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15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Brain
11. Size doesn’t always matter.
Einstein’s brain weighted 1,230 grams.
Average male’s brain weighs 1,360 grams.
Albert Einstein, who had an average-sized brain, would have been out of luck!
12. Einstein’s brain is split into 240 sperate slides.
When he died in Princeton Hospital, on April 18, 1955, the pathologist on call, Thomas Harvey, stole it. Harvey soon lost his job at the Princeton hospital and took the brain to Philadelphia, where it was carved into 240 pieces and preserved in celloidin, a hard and rubbery form of cellulose. He divvied up the pieces into two jars and stored them in his basement.
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