Hands & Feet

Posted February 8, 2022

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Hands & Feet

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The Season 3 finale draws ever nearer, but before we get to that big beautiful Butt episode, we need to make a detour to those nifty tools on the ends of our limbs: hands and feet!

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[Trivia Question]

Heel-toe or toe-heel running

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31525171/

[Fact Off]

Trench foot and (possibly, tenuously) water balloons

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482364/

https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(06)70334-9/fulltext

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0666752