Saturday, January 09, 2010

50 Things We Know Now Which We Didn't Know This Time Last Year

There are some gems in this list.

Here's a favourite:

9. Babies pick up their parents' accents from the womb, and infants are born crying in their native dialect. Researchers found that French newborns cry in a rising French accent, and German babies cry with a characteristic falling inflection.



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