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Discover more On Discovery Channel today
An illustration: A man is sucked into the heart of the storm. Spun and shaken horrifically, his limp body drops out of the sky a quarter of a mile away. He hasn’t broken a single bone. How could that be?
Scientists estimate that the man hit the ground at nearly 30 miles an hour.
His bones protected his internal organs from being smashed. His bones don’t break, not just because they’re strong, but because they were flexible.
His survival testifies to the human skeleton’s extraordinary resilience and power.
Discover many more such stories as Discovery Channel airs a groundbreaking series portraying the human body as you’ve never seen it before in Human Body: Pushing the Limits. The show will be aired every Tuesday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. starting this week.
The series, spread over four episodes - Sight, Strength, Sensation and Brain - takes us across continents, meeting those who have pushed their bodies to the maximum.
The latest CGI and camerawork depicts their ordeals in vivid detail both externally and through the internal functions of their bodies.
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