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We sure have lots of bones!

We sure have lots of bones!. We sure have lots of bones!. A newborn baby has more bones than an adult. A baby is born with 300 bones. An adult only has 206. Your hand has 27 bones. Your face has 14 bones. Smallest and The Longest:.

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We sure have lots of bones!

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  1. We sure have lots of bones! We sure have lots of bones! A newborn baby has more bones than an adult. A baby is born with 300 bones. An adult only has 206.

  2. Your hand has 27 bones.

  3. Your face has 14 bones.

  4. Smallest and The Longest: • The longest bone in your body is your thigh bone, the femur it is about 1/4 of your height. • The smallest bone in your body is the stirrup bone in your ear which can measure only 1/10 of an inch.

  5. Did You Know? Humans and giraffes have the same number of bones in their necks? A Giraffe’s neck vertebrae are just much, much longer!

  6. Bone is stronger, inch for inch than the steel used in skyscrapers. Your Femur (thigh bone) is stronger than concrete.

  7. Babies are born without the patella (knee bone) it develops between ages 2 and 5.

  8. One fourth of your bones are located in your feet.

  9. Your backbone is really thirty-three bones that run down the middle of your body.

  10. The jawbone is the hardest in the human body.

  11. The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in your inner ear.

  12. If you break your wrist as an adult it will take you 8 weeks to heal. A five year old child who breaks their wrist only takes 3 weeks to heal.

  13. Your big toes have 2 bones in them, while all your other toes have 3 bones in them.

  14. Your bones also manufacture blood cells and stores useful minerals.

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