10 Stirring Facts about Spring

A perpetual astonishment, spring brings with it a promise of new life and warmth. Soak in its loveliness with our interesting spring facts, including surprising statistics, a history of spring celebrations around the world, myths, seasonal effects on the human body, and much more. 1. Children grow faster in the spring than during other times of the year. 2. According to a Facebook study, couples are most likely to break up in the spring and two weeks before Christmas. Couples are least likely to break up on Christmas Day and from August through October. 3. A large-scale study found that babies born in the spring are more likely to develop schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and anorexia. 4. The early Egyptians built the Great Sphinx so that it points directly toward the rising sun on the spring equinox. 5. According to Greek myth, the return of spring coincides with the return of Persephone, the daughter of De