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Saturday, 10 February 2007 07:57 |
- A baby is born every seven seconds.
- Babies are born with very poor vision but can recognize their mothers almost right away.
- Babies are always born with blue eyes, within a few moments of delivery their eye color can change.
- Babies are born with swimming abilities and can naturally hold their breath. However, they shortly lose this instinct.
- Newborns usually double their weight by six months.
- Playing classical music will increase a baby's intelligence.
- Reading to your child at ANY age will increase their knowledge.
- Babies and toddlers are, pound for pound, stronger than oxen. This is especially true of their legs.
- Babies are born without kneecaps.
- The human body is a fascinating study to subject. You may be surprised by the following facts.
- Women blink twice as many times as men do.
- Eyes are the most active muscles in the whole body.
- There are about 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
- The life span of a tastebud is 10 days.
- Humans have almost 10,000 taste buds.
- The colder the room you sleep in, the more likely that you will have a bad dream.
- The human body is better suited for two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
- The jawbone is the hardest bone in the human body.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.... Talk about a lot of celebrating.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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