5.+FUN+FACTS

  
 * Did you know that...
 * The face need 17 muscles to smile.
 * Muscular system is the half of our weight.
 * The hardest working muscle is in the eye.
 * The smallest muscle in your body is in your ear and is called stapedius.
 * When you move you use more or less 200 muscles.
 * The 75% of the muscles are completely water.
 * There are 20 muscles in each hand.
 * In your body there are more than 640 mucles.
 * Most of the muscles are attached to bones.
 * Muscles make almost all our weight.
 * Eye muscles are one of the busiest muscles in our body.
 * There are more or less 30 muscles in your face.
 * Muscles can account for about 40% your body weight.
 * The longest muscle has muscle cells that can be over a foot long.
 * there are muscles in the root of your hair that give you goose bumps.
 * the largest muscle in your body is the gluteus maximus.
 * There are 640 individual names for muscles. Muscles need OXYGEN and FOOD to function properly. The hardest working muscles in the body are the muscles in the eye. It takes 17 muscles in the body to smile
 * 200 muscles are used in each step you take.
 * Muscles can only pull, they cannot push.
 * The longest muscle has muscle cells that can be over a foot long

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