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the only bone you can dislocate just by yawning too hard at a party
means The hinged bone structure of the mouth that holds your teeth and lets you chew, talk, and bite — or, as a verb, to talk on and on.
from From Middle English 'jowe' or 'jawe,' which likely came through Old French 'joue' meaning 'cheek.' The deeper roots are murky and debated, but it eventually edged out the older English word for the same thing, 'chaft.' The chatty sense — 'to jaw at someone' — is a much later figurative leap, the idea being that all that talking is just your jaw flapping.
- bite force
- masseter muscle clamps with over 200 pounds of pressure
- strongest muscle
- the masseter is the body's most powerful by weight
- only mover
- the lower jaw is your skull's sole moving bone
- first impression
- a strong jawline signals testosterone and bone health
- yawn risk
- can lock open from overstretching, requiring a doctor
great white shark jaw — can exert 4,000 psi of bite force, largest predatory fish teeth
hippopotamus jaw — opens 150 degrees wide, kills ~500 people annually in africa
mantis shrimp raptorial claw — strikes with force of .22 caliber bullet, fastest predatory appendage