# how muscles in a human body?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-muscles-in-a-human-body/141241 "2002-12-08T02:43:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dandmb50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@Dandmb50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandmb50)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-muscles-in-a-human-body/141241/1 "2002-12-08T02:43:35Z")

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dispute over the amount of muscles in human body .  
how many are there?😉

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**Author:** ![Dandmb50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@Dandmb50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandmb50)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-muscles-in-a-human-body/141241/2 "2002-12-08T02:46:07Z")

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what I meant is how many muscles

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**Author:** ![Coffeeguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Coffeeguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coffeeguy)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-muscles-in-a-human-body/141241/3 "2002-12-08T03:03:15Z")

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And what combination of them is required to use the “shift” key?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-muscles-in-a-human-body/141241/4 "2002-12-08T03:25:17Z")

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[http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FactSheets/AnimalsandHumans.asp](http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FactSheets/AnimalsandHumans.asp)

> [@](#):
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> How many muscles in the human body?  
> 639  
> source: World Book Encyclopedia

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-muscles-in-a-human-body/141241/5 "2002-12-08T05:48:34Z")

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See [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148813](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148813)