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TIL when babies first start emoting, they sometines turn away in the middle of smiling at you because they're so overwhelmed by joy that they can't handle all the emotion and have to regulate by looking somehwere else. This is known as 'Gaze Aversion' and is used to reduce their heartbeats.

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