Animal Eyes

Newborn babies have 300 bones and around 10,000 tastebuds all over their mouths. Some bones will fuse together as they grow, and all the tastebuds that are not on the tongue itself will disappear. In the first year of a baby’s life, the size of its brain will double!

Bram Stoker, an Irish author, wrote the classic gothic novel, Dracula, ushering the legend of the vampire into mainstream European and American culture. Though the novel is partially set in Transylvania, a region in central Romania, Stoker never travelled to Eastern Europe!

Juggling is said to increase the volume of gray matter in a child’s brain by 3 percent. “Learning a difficult perceptual-motor skill—juggling—induced a 3 percent increase in the volume of gray matter in visual attention areas,” write Yale scholars.