These are the 12 most impressive facts about the bones that make up the human skeleton:
- We have 24 ribs... Mostly . We have 12 ribs on each side, but 1 in 500 individuals is born with 1 extra rib, known as a cervical rib.
2.- Children . Newborns are born with about 300 bones, but these are joined together to create 206, which is the average human. This helps facilitate birth.
3.- Hands and feet. Of the 206 bones, 106 are in the hands and feet. Each hand has 27 (54) and each foot 26 (52), for a total of more than half of the total.
4.- Teeth. Although they are considered as such, teeth are not among the 206 bones we possess.
5. Skull and face. Many mammals, including us, have the same number of bones in their face and skull: 22, 8 in the skull and 14 in the face.
6. Vertebrae. Giraffes and we have the same number of vertebrae: 7.
7. Weight. 15% of our body weight is made up of our bones.
8.- The largest, the longest, and the smallest. The largest bone is the pelvis, the union of six bones; the longest is the femur, in the thigh, which makes up 25% of our height; and the smallest is the stapes, located in the middle ear and measuring little more than a grain of rice.
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