Baby inherits family’s genetic streak of white hair

We do inherit a lot of things from our forefathers but this 18-month-old girl from South Carolina has inherited something quite unusual — a unique white hair birthmark, following three generations of women who have the trait.

MilliAnna represents the fourth generation of women in her family to have the shock of white hair. MilliAnna’s mother, Brianna Worthy, also has the bright white patch on the front of her head. Worthy’s mother and grandmother have the streak, too.

“We are unsure how far back the birthmark goes as my grandmother was adopted as a child and hasn’t met her biological family,” Worthy said.

The hereditary trait is caused by a condition called poliosis, or a lack of melanin in a hairy area.

Though Worthy was teased about the streak as a child, she has grown to embrace it and plans to raise MilliAnna the same way.

“I’m going to tell her, ‘you’re unique, you’re pretty, you’re beautiful’,” Worthy said.

Carrot unearths man’s long-lost ring

An 82-year-old man from Germany found his lost wedding ring wrapped around a growing carrot after losing the band in his garden three years ago, according to German news.

The man said his wife reassured him the ring would reappear after it fell into the dirt while he was gardening shortly after they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Six months after his wife’s death, the ring surfaced.

After finding the ring around the middle of the carrot, the man said that sometimes “you reap what you sow.”

In 2011, A Swedish woman’s missing ring was also found with the help of a lucky carrot.

Published in Dawn, Young World, December 3rd, 2016