It takes approximatley 43 muscles to frown and 17 muscles to smile.
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No one knows the answer. Why not? Read this: http://www.snopes.com/science/smile.asp An excerpt: "Everyone has heard it a different way, and everyone passes along the version they've heard as rock-solid certainty, presenting same as...
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There's a saying that: "It takes 37 muscles to frown. And 22 muscles to smile." However, it's not true. As explained at http://www.snopes.com/science/smile.asp Everyone has heard it a different way, and everyone passes along the v...
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I could hazard a guess, but I'll defer to Dr. David Song, a plastic surgeon and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Hospitals, who was interviewed for a Straight Dope article: Does it take fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown? Counting only the muscles that make significant contributions,
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The urban legend, that it takes us to use more muscles to frown, than to smile has been around longer than anybody can remember. The quantity of muscles, it needs to produce either of these expressions, varies to a great extent depending on...
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Re: Does it take more mucles to smile or frown? Date: Thu Jan 28 19:19:35 1999; Posted By: Serenity Roos, Undergraduate, elementary education, Lebanon Valley College; Area of science: Anatomy; ID: 917333178.An ... It takes 43 muscles to frown, but only 17 muscles to smile. That makes it 2.5 times easier to smile.
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Take all assigned polls, ... You use less muscles to smile then to frown. True14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw. True; Muscles normally account for 40 percent of one's body weight. ... This volume has 514 color plates, many with multiple views,
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I've heard from all sorts of places that it takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile (the numbers vary), but I can tell you from experience that spending half an hour grinning is a lot more tiring than half an hour of not smiling, whi...
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Trivia Quiz #6 Place cursor on spinning ball to see the answer ... 1. What is the largest cell in the human body? ... 20. It takes 17 muscles to smile; how many does it take to frown?
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