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Human Body

Bone is stronger than steel by weight 

Gram for gram, human bone outperforms steel in compression — a hollow lattice design gives it strength without the weight.

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Etymology

'Muscle' means little mouse

Latin musculus described the way a flexing bicep ripples like a small mouse moving under the skin.

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Biology

A red blood cell lives about 120 days

It has no nucleus, so it cannot repair itself. In that short life it makes roughly 170,000 trips around your body before being recycled in the spleen.

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