Chainsaws were first invented for childbirth. It was developed in Scotland in the late 18th Century to help aid and speed up the process of symphysiotomy (widening the pubic cartilage) and removal of disease-laden bone during childbirth. It wasn’t until the start of the 20th Century that we started using chainsaws for woodchopping.
100 Mind-Blowing Bone Facts
The longest bone in the human body is called the femur. It’s your thigh bone.
Your funny bone is a nerve. This funny bone connects the shoulder to the elbow and also has the ulnar nerve running along it. This nerve is responsible for sensing feelings in the ring and pinky fingers.
The femur is the largest bone located in the human body. The head of the femur fits into your hip socket and the bottom ends of it connect to your knee. More commonly, this bone is referred to as the thigh bone.
The human bone is stronger than steel. If you were to have a bone and a piece of steel of the same length and thickness, the bone would be five times stronger than the steel bar. However, bones are brittle and can also fracture on impact.
The thigh bones of humans are stronger than concrete. The thigh bones support the weight of the entire body and are approximately eight times stronger than concrete. However, they are still prone to break when serious injury is inflicted on the bone.
Humans have just 1 bone less than horses. Horses have an average of 205 bones or more while the adult human is set at 206. On average, horses will live for 25-30 years.
Red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow. The red blood cells begin in the bone marrow as immature cells. After a week of maturing, they are sent out to the bloodstream. The bone marrow also produces 60-70% of white blood cells as well as all of the platelets.
¼ of all your bones are in your feet. There are 26 bones and 33 joints in each foot. That makes 52 bones in both feet out of the 206 bones in our whole body – which makes foot bones more than 25% of the body’s total bone structure.
The tongue isn’t the strongest muscle in the body. The tongue is the only muscle not attached to skin or bone, but it’s not the strongest muscle.
Over a dozen skeletons were found in Benjamin Franklin’s basement. In 1998, an organisation called Friends of Benjamin Franklin House decided to restore the four-story Georgian house where Franklin lived in London. However, they discovered a gruesome sight – one of the workers found a human thigh bone. The authorities were brought in, and a total of remains from 15 people were found – 6 of those belonging to children, and all with holes drilled into their skulls. The skeletons date back to 200 years ago then, which was around the time Benjamin Franklin lived in the house. This is one of the most disturbing WTF facts.
Some people have an extra bone in their knee. The fabella is found at the back of the knee in some people. Also known as a sesamoid bone, it grows in the tendon of a muscle.
A cubic inch of bone is four times as strong as concrete. Ounce for ounce, bone is even stronger than steel.
Chicken meat is not the main ingredient of chicken nuggets. The main ingredients for a typical chicken nugget are fat, epithelium, bone, and connective tissue. Sounds appetizing!
Prolonged exposure to microgravity (lesser force of gravity in space) can cause muscular dystrophy and bone loss in humans.
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone in the ear. Damage to this bone may cause partial or complete hearing loss.
The bone-house wasp stuffs the walls of its nest with dead ants.
Most people are aware that Beethoven was deaf. However, the musician figured out a way to hear even after losing the ability to hear sounds. If Beethoven bit into a metal pole that he connected to his piano, then he could hear through a process called bone conduction.