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thirty-two tiny boulders that outlive the rest of you by centuries
means The hard, white, bony structures set in your jaws, used for biting, chewing, and the occasional menacing grin.
from The plural of "tooth," from Old English "tōþ," with that vowel-shifting plural (tooth/teeth) inherited from ancient Germanic. It traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root "*dent-" / "*h₃dónts," which also gnaws its way into Latin "dens" (giving us dental and dentist) and Greek "odous" — making your teeth distant cousins of the dentist who fixes them.
hardest stuffenamel beats every other tissue in your body
no repairsthe only part of you that can't heal itself
fossil goldsurvive millennia, telling archaeologists your whole diet
baby stashadult teeth wait hidden in the skull from birth
unique printyour bite identifies you like a fingerprint