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TIL the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body is the Stapedius muscle, which is about one millimeter (0.04 inch) in length. Its purpose is, amazingly enough, to "stabilize the smallest bone in the body, the stapes or strirrup bone of the middle ear."

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