Today’s interesting fact has to do with muscles and chimpanzees.
The average chimp's muscles are twice as strong as a human's muscles.
The reduction in strength is thought to have allowed us humans to increase our dexterity, and therefore produce the flints, wood work and eventually societies we now have in the modern world.
So the loss of strength is not necessarily a bad thing, if you want to write or use a keyboard as a ten finger typist.
Challenged in September 2010 to come up with interesting facts every day by one of my work colleagues, I've since entertained him and those near his desk with bits of information dredged from my brain. Some of my audience went on holiday and still wanted the facts so I started posting here, every day I do one of them, usually Monday through Friday, and the occasional post on the weekend. I post these facts here almost every day and you will find two posts on some days to make any missing days.
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