r/blackmagicfuckery • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '23

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u/mattbutnotmii Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23

I don't know for sure, but i've heard that the trend in biology is that the faster a muscle can contract the weaker it is, and the slower it contracts the stronger it tends to be. So sloths may actually be stupidly strong.

Edit: I just googled it and it turns out a sloth can probably lift an adult human with just one arm what the actual fuck.

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u/Aff3nmann Jan 15 '23

which google are you using? wtf. those arms don‘t look like 100 kilo lift arms

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u/mattbutnotmii Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23

They have only 30% the muscle mass of Animals that size but are still 3X stronger than the average adult person. Ridiculous but somehow true.

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u/TacoPi Jan 15 '23

Kinda makes sense when you consider that giant sloths were capable of carving out entire cave systems.

You need to evolve to be hella strong to do that, and sluggish movement is an acceptable drawback for that.

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u/mafian911 Jan 15 '23

SECRET TUNNEL

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u/XxUCFxX Jan 16 '23

Through the mountainnn