bone, n.Trivia

Sharks have no bones in their body.

Chicken nuggets are only about 40% meat. The rest is fat, skin, blood vessels, and bone fragments.

A cubic inch of bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks making it four times as strong as concrete.

The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other

Ice skating. . . was originally a mode of transportation across large ice-covered areas. The blade was typically built of animal bones.

Milk doesn't build strong bones and, if you're a woman, it may actually weaken them.

Boneless " wings " aren't wings at all, they're breast meat. They're basically chicken nuggets.

The foot is full of bones --- 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.

25% of all our bones are in our feet.

bones are more plentiful in babies --- new born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206)

Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.

bones can be small --- the smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear

The head contains 22 bones

Viking blacksmiths used the bones of their dead ancestors and slain animals to strengthen their swords, hoping to transfer the spirit into their blades. This DID strengthen their swords though because the carbon in bones combined with iron led to the…

One quarter of all the body’s bones are in the feet.

Vultures are able to swallow whole bones over a foot long because they have the most acidic digestive system in the animal world

The skull is made up of 29 different bones

Babies have around 100 more bones than adults

Bones are different --- You are born with 270 bones which merge into 206 by the time you’re an adult.

44% of people have broken a bone