› added 6 years ago

190

TIL newborn babies pick up their parent's accent while still in the womb. A French baby's cry tends to have a rising tone, while a German baby's cry tends to have a falling tone.

Read more pursuitofresearch.org

via reddit.com

kONy5 TIL that GoBots, despite being thought of as a Transformers knock-off, actually pre-dated Transformers by a year.
pnVA TIL 1.7-3.3%of fathers are unknowingly raising children that aren’t their own
DQxXr TIL: the 1966 song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield was not written about the Vietnam War. The song was actually written about the protests/riots on L.A.’s Sunset Strip that occurred because the LA County began enforcing a 10 p.m. curfew for anyone under 18.
O0pe TIL: Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888. But it proved unusable, receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day – mostly from babies playing with the phone.
lEgr TIL L. Ron Hubbard once fought a 68 hour naval battle with two non-existent Japanese submarines after operating his vessel’s SONAR incorrectly.