Your bones are almost one-third water
We naturally think of skeletons as dry, brittle Halloween decorations, but while they are still inside you, they are shockingly wet. Almost a third of a living bone's mass is just water trapped within the rigid calcium-phosphate matrix and flexible collagen fibers. You are basically a walking, talking water balloon structurally supported by slightly denser, highly calcified water balloons.

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