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shoulder

A horse's shoulder muscles suspend its body between the front legs, supporting a heavy animal without a bony connection to its trunk.

stomach

Your stomach lining renews itself every few days because its own acid is strong enough to dissolve metal.

hand

Each hand has 27 bones, so your two hands together hold more than a quarter of all the bones in your body.

forehead

A dolphin's rounded forehead contains a fatty organ called a melon, which helps aim sound pulses for finding things through their echoes.

eyebrow

In a recognition study, removing eyebrows from familiar faces made them harder to identify than removing the eyes from the same pictures.

knuckle

A cracking knuckle forms a gas cavity inside the joint fluid; imaging caught the cavity appearing as the sound happened.

abdomen

Some belly buttons are inward and others outward, but their shape comes from healing after birth, not a doctor's knot.

eyelash

Microscopic mites can live around the roots of human eyelashes, making an apparently bare eyelid a home for tiny eight-legged neighbors.

nostril

You mostly breathe through one nostril at a time, and the busier side quietly switches every few hours.

finger

Fingers have no muscles inside them; they are pulled by tendons like puppet strings reaching up into the forearm.

muscle

Your heart doesn't need a starter signal from your brain for every beat; specialized cells set its own rhythm.

buttock

The gluteus maximus in each buttock is the body's largest muscle, powering you upright when you stand, climb, and run.

eardrum

Sound can reach your inner ear through skull vibrations, bypassing the eardrum, which is how bone-conduction headphones work.

tongue

The familiar tongue map is misleading: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory tastes aren't confined to separate little territories in your mouth.

earlobe

Earlobes are the only part of the outer ear with no cartilage, which is why they stay soft and floppy.

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