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March 29, 2002

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. This lowly body part has 28 bones, a score of muscles and tendons, more than 50 ligaments, complex webs of blood vessels and nerves, and swells up toward evening. Its 90,000 sweat glands pump out half a cup daily. Did you already guess?

    A. Of course, it's the human foot, with today's version a full size bigger than its counterpart of a generation ago, due to better nutrition. Each day a typical owner takes some 8,000 steps – or 100,000 miles in a lifetime, four times around the world.


     
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