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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily
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by Kim Krisberg
One of the Millennium Development Goals -- a set of goals to improve global well-being by 2015 -- is to reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate of children under age five.
It is now well established that the adult mammalian brain - including that of humans - contains at least two discrete populations of neural stem cells which continue to generate new nerve cells throughout life.
This is absolutely fascinating, yet another reminder that the structure of language infects everything. Here's Nell Greenfieldboyce, at NPR:
Sample size please? My local hospital, US or worldwide?
Even if that statistic is true, which I highly doubt, that works out to about 1 in 30,000. Not a great accuracy rate, but not catastrophic, either.
Can you list the source reference?
The Freeman Institute : http://www.freemaninstitute.com/uselessFacts.htm
A great many of those so-called facts are actually urban legends.
For example, the bit about the american flag on the canadian $2 bill, and the bit about the praying mantis being unable copulate with its head attached.
=LOL= in spite of knowing this is serious. I'm the oldest of four siblings, and we look nothing alike except that three of us have brown hair. The last time we were all together, our mom said, "You all look like you came from the adoption agency!"
OOOOOO, *busted*
i was trying to have a little fun, but you peeps are just too smart for this sort of thing. although it is possible that some of these things really are true, but i wouldn't bet my life on most of them.