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Things I did not know

#1 Post by flatlander » Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:46 am

For example I did not know that babies are born without knees
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#2 Post by BikerGran » Sat Jun 07, 2014 10:25 am

Neither did I! Are you sure? Do you mean without kneecaps, ie patella? Cos maybe I did know that - it's only cartilage.
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#3 Post by Dalemac » Sat Jun 07, 2014 10:42 am

BikerGran wrote:Neither did I! Are you sure? Do you mean without kneecaps, ie patella? Cos maybe I did know that - it's only cartilage.
The Patella is definitely a bone!

It does, however protect the cartilage in the knee joint.
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#4 Post by D-Rider » Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:02 pm

At birth, a baby's patella is still cartilage that has not yet turned into bone.

That said, babies certainly do have knees!

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-b ... ecaps1.htm
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#5 Post by flatlander » Sat Jun 07, 2014 6:05 pm

They are born with cartilage not bone so do not have knees / kneecaps they grow these later in time with walking. I.e when they need them

One of the reasons appears to be to allow movement bordering on hyper extensibility such as that which Mylene Klass has, which I also only just found out!

What I now need to ruminate on is why Mylene having this strikes me as a good thing ?
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Re: Things I did not know

#6 Post by lazarus » Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:59 pm

flatlander wrote:For example I did not know that babies are born without knees

Neither did I
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#7 Post by Viking » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:07 am

Did anyone know that elephants can't jump?

(And do you know the reason why?)
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#8 Post by DavShill » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:55 am

I don't know what I don't know because I don't know it :smt017
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#9 Post by flatlander » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:32 pm

Because they have no knees? Or they are just similar in frame to some of our members ... Who can't jump either.... Hi squid hi Alad ;)
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#10 Post by D-Rider » Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:09 am

Viking wrote:Did anyone know that elephants can't jump?

(And do you know the reason why?)
There go my plans to run the Elephant Grand National ........ :smt009
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#11 Post by Viking » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:18 am

Apparently elephants don't have ankles, and you need them to jump with.

(Oh, and camels can't walk backwards.)
It's the V-twin thing. There's just something about it that inline-4s don't have at all, and V-4s don't have enough of.
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