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TIL that humans are the only animals that have chins (www.smithsonianmag.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.online to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device.

I take "a pendulum-like device" to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This whole device sounds morbid but hilarious. Did they like strap dead bodies to a swing and position them like Superman and swing their bodies into a wall fist fist?

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

That would have been awesome, but I suspect that it was just the arms and that it was powered in some way, hence "pendulum-like".