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TIL For yet unknown reasons, Mountain Gorillas tend to naturally be afraid of certain insects and reptiles. Infants Gorillas, whose naturally chase upon anything that moves as they play, commonly avoid Chameleons and Caterpillars within their environment.

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 7:53 pm

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TIL: Sadly, children in their first year of life (infants aged less than 1 year) are a massive 15% of all child abuse cases

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 5:57 am

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TIL that in 1930, Vivien Thomas, an African American carpenter’s apprentice who didn’t go to Medical School, a long side Dr Alfred Blalock successfully devised an operation to save “Blue Babies”, infants born with a deadly heart defect that sends blood past their lungs

by whatilearned March 26, 2022, 5:30 pm

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TIL of Nystagmus which is a condition of involuntary eye movement. Infants can be born with it but more commonly acquire it in infancy or later in life. In many cases it may result in reduced or limited vision. Due to the involuntary movement of the eye, it has been called “dancing eyes”.

by whatilearned March 14, 2022, 1:03 am

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TIL for infants, not being breastfed is associated with an increased incidence of infectious morbidity, gastroenteritis, and pneumonia, as well as elevated risks of childhood obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

by whatilearned March 6, 2022, 7:44 pm

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TIL Research suggests that infants laugh in peekaboo because it’s the very first “joke” that a child enjoys. The initial anxiety caused by the mother’s disappearance is resolved by her anti-climactic reappearance. This is the basic structure of a joke, which elicits pleasure in humans.

by whatilearned March 6, 2022, 3:07 pm

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TIL that Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, who saw a market for adult dolls since most at the time represented infants. Barbie was redesigned from a doll she found in Germany that was depicted as a “working girl” and described as sassy, ambitious, and “a gold-digger, exhibitionist, and floozy.”

by whatilearned February 17, 2022, 6:30 pm

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TIL Peanut allergies can be prevented by introducing peanut-containing food to infants between 4-6 months old

by whatilearned January 24, 2022, 12:34 am

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Infants of Reddit (18 months and younger) what’s it like being a baby?

by QuestionGuy January 14, 2022, 10:34 pm

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TIL Nebraska passed a “Safe Haven Law” to ostensibly allow infants to be abandoned at certain locations without abandonment charges. However, it had no age cap, so people would abandon teenagers and older kids.

by whatilearned October 28, 2021, 7:16 am

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TIL that in an effort to demonstrate the importance of human and social interaction, Frederick Il (13th century) conducted an experiment amongst 50 babies. He assigned foster mothers to physically care for the children but forbade them to fondle, pet or talk to them. All 50 infants died.

by whatilearned October 15, 2021, 4:03 am

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TIL ancient Egyptians would give opium to quiet crying babies. This practice was also a popular way to calm babies in the Victorian era, but it sometimes caused infants to starve to death as they were kept in a constant state of narcotism.

by whatilearned September 26, 2021, 12:58 pm

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