Various facts about bones and muscles

This they drive our body, but we do not even know much about muscles and bones. And in vain, because they hide no less interesting and strange than any other organs.

1. Human bones are not a constant value. We are born with three hundred bones, but when we grow up, we have only 206. No, we do not become cripples as we grow up. Just a lot of bones in babies( for example, skull bones), very small, and later grow together. It is necessary only to facilitate birth. Our growth also changes: as we know, in the morning we are higher, and for the day the cartilage between the bones is compressed. It is guilty of this standing, sitting and other loads on the bones.
2. No matter how we develop our body physically, our strongest bones are jawbones, and the strongest muscles are the tongue and chewing muscles. When we eat ordinary food, they have a pressure force of up to 15 kg, and when eating nuts or other solid foods it grows to 100 kg.
3. Most of the bones are at our feet - there are 52 of the two hundred six mentioned. But the muscle fibers are the most on the face - 25 percent of the total mass. Therefore, no matter how you develop flexibility and plasticity, facial expressions will be developed better. What do actors and comedians use. By the way, when a person cries, 43 muscle groups are involved in the face, and when laughs - 17. When kissing, we involve 30-34 muscle groups of the face.
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4. And in our body there are muscles that are not needed. More precisely, we do not know anything about their purpose in humans. These are long palmar muscles that do not perform any function. They were necessary for animals to release claws, and we, apparently, remained a rudiment. However, such muscles are not available to everyone: one in six people does not.
5. The shortest muscle in our body is stirring. That the eardrum strains. Its length is only 1.2 mm. There, in the ear, are the smallest bones. And the largest muscle is gluteus with an average length of about 20 cm.
6. Muscles atrophy more slowly than they grow. In the whole two times. And this means that you can once pump them up properly and continue to just maintain this state without much effort.