Human babies have roughly 300 bones in total (about 60 of those are "complete" bones) compared to an adult who usually have 206 bones in total
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Top 5 Amazing Facts About Bones
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Your hand contains the most bones with 54
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Human bones continue to gain density until about age thirty. Bone is actually living tissue that replenishes itself, completing a full cycle once every seven years on average
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For relative weight bones are actually stronger than steel even though they're about 30% water
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The femur is the strongest, capable of sustaining a force from 1,800-2,500 pounds - and it is hollow
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Stuntman Evel Knievel had suffered 433 broken bones and fractures by 1975
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Humans and giraffes have the same number of bones in their necks