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100,000 miles of axons

This might come as a very shocking surprise, but it is true. There are about 100,000 miles of axons in our brain. If connected, these have the capacity to wrap the Earth nearly four times! For those still wondering what an axon is, it is nothing but a long projection of the nerve fiber. It is responsible for transmitting information from one neuron to another.

100,000 miles of axons