You’re born with about 300 bones, but as you grow, some of these fuse together as cartilage ossifies, eventually leaving you with 206 bones by the time you stop growing (once you’ve reach young adulthood). As it turns out, there are quite a few things you didn’t know about your body.
While many animals produce tears as lubricants for their eyes, humans are the only ones who cry as an emotional response. Dr. Thomas Dixon, director of the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, suggested that tears serve a social purpose for humans and that, “Even for those who think they really are just weeping for nobody apart from themselves, it’s still a sort of performance. You’re showing yourself things have really got bad, or whatever it might be.”
While there is some debate about which of your muscles is the strongest, your gluteus maximus happens to be your largest, according to the Library of Congress. These muscles help keep your body upright and move your hips and thighs have to work against gravity when you’re walking uphill or upstairs. Oh, and they also cushion you in the seated position.
It might seem like a tall tale, but, as the folks at Business Insider explain, when you wake up in the morning, you’re actually a tiny bit taller than you are when you went to bed. This is due to the pressure put on joints throughout the day. As you go about your activities, it puts causes the cartilage in your spine to compress—just fractions of an inch but enough to push everything down. As you relax in your sleep, it eases the pressure on your spinal disks and allowing you to return to your full height.
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