Have you ever noticed how powerful the human senses are? Whenever deprived of a skill or a sense, the human body usually makes up for it in some other way. That's why blind people have amazing hearing, and etc. The same works for us at a young age. When we were babies, we couldn't understand language, or anything of the sort, so we were creepily good at understanding facial expressions or body language.
A recent study at the University of Washington showed that babies were so sensitive to facial expression, that they actually started crying when watching someone who seemed to be in distress. But it gets weirder. The same thing applied to dogs. We as babies could understand what dogs were saying. Which means that WE COULD TALK TO DOGS AS A CHILD!! unfortunately, this all leaves us as soon as we learn to speak.
2. Amazing Eyesight
When we were babies, we could determine the difference between these two monkeys. Creepy, right?
3. Amazing Hearing
Studies have shown that babies have the hearing of a FREAKING DEVIL. Thousands of years ago, this was used to listen for predators among the jungles, and whatnot. In modern times, however, this is used to completely even out sounds; babies can multitask at crazy lengths, hearing wise. they can listen to all sounds within a certain amount of feet, and pay attention to each and every individual one, rather than focusing on one and drowning everything else out.
Babies can even determine foreign languages from normal languages at a mere 4 days old.
4. Metabolism of a God
Ever notice that babies are rarely overweight? Sure they're chubby, but are they ever overweight? This is because of something called brown fat, or Brown Adipose Tissue. What this does is it burns calories at amazing rates, keeping the babies fit as ever. In an adult body, just 63 ounces of brown fat would be enough to burn 400 to 500 calories of white fat a DAY, or around 10 pounds a year, just from lazing around all day.
5. Superminds
Humans are born h over 100 billion neurons, same as the number of stars in the Milky Way. However, without a large number of synapses, having lots of neurons is like owning an impressive gun collection with only peas and carrots to load them with. By age three, babies have around 15,000 synapses per neuron... three times as much as an adult in his prime.
Thanks to that, their supercomputer brains can constantly suck up data from their surroundings, then store, analyze and compare it relentlessly trying to understand the world they live in. The infant's capacity for gaining and processing knowledge easily surpasses that of a genius adult mind, making all babies giant nerds by nature. See? Your secret desire to punch them in the face has been perfectly natural all along!Amazing, huh?
information was taken off of here: http://www.cracked.com/article_18538_5-superpowers-we-all-had-as-babies-according-to-science_p2.html
