10 Badass Superpowers Everybody Has

3. Baby Brain Growth

During the first month of life, an infant is learning so many new things that the number of connections, called synapses, between brain cells increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion. By comparison, if the rest of the infant's body responded with equally rapid growth, it'd weigh 170 pounds by the time it was was a month old.

Researchers discovered that baby's brains expanded by a staggering 64% within their first 90 days post-vagitus, which is to say from 33% the size of an adult brain to 55% the size in just three months. That's a heck of a lot going on when it looks like they're just lying there gurgling.

It was also found that the brains of premature babies grew at a faster rate than those born full-term, meaning the 'age' of the infant is inversely proportional the rate of cerebral expansion. Furthermore, different parts of the brain developed at different speeds. The cerebellum - principle for movement - grew the quickest, whilst the hippocampus, mostly involved with creating memories, grew slowest. This explains why babies spend lots of time kicking around randomly, but none of them can ever remember doing so.