overheard in Ann Arbor

[fflo]

"Did you hear about how the bees can't find their hives because of the cell phones?"

and

"We're born without kneecaps. That's what they told me. You're actually born without kneecaps."

Comments

[kohkae.livejournal.com]

I checked out the kneecap thing: they are there when we're born but are only cartilage. The ossify into bone around age three. As many times as toddlers fall down, it's probably a good thing.

The same is true for the breastbone. The lower tip of it doesn't completely turn to bone in some people until age 18.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

"ossify" --- i like this word

:]

innarestin' on the scoop, too. thanks for researchin'.