Welcome to Day 23 of my July Trivia posts.*
Trivia: Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
I had never heard this and didn’t know if it was true or not. It turns out it’s false.
Our eyes grow a lot during our first two years, and then there is a second growth around puberty. A newborn’s eye is about 0.6 inches in length while an adult eye is 0.95 inches.
I know dolls like Precious Moments are known for having big eyes, but I’m glad babies don’t look at us with oversized eyes. That would be creepy.
The other half of this trivia is also false. Your nose and ears do stop growing, but because they are made of cartilage, gravity causes them to droop later in life, and it looks like they are still growing.
I give this trivia a 0 out of 10. It is doubly false and doubly annoying.
*I’m doing something hard (for me) in July that I don’t want to talk about until August (in case I fail.) This something takes a lot of time, so I’m simplifying my July posts. I’m using a list of trivia that Aunt Patti emailed me. Each day, I will explore a trivia fact and bring you the truth, not just the clickbait. I might even rate the trivia. I think this will be fun because I love exploring new topics and sharing them with you. I hope you learn something too. If you do, why not share it with a friend. One of my goals is to get more readers, and word of mouth is a great way to do that. Many thanks.