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Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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How Long Are These Whiskers?
Human facial hair doesn't really count as whiskers, even though we totally call it that. But our ancestors were truly whiskered. Each whisker has a muscle that controls its twitching and movement. The humans have remnants of these whisker muscles ind our faces. If i grew a beard, could i train it to feel things? Ca, wind's blowing from the east. You can do that with your face anyway. And i think a bus is passing a mile away. How long are these whiskers? Is very long. All right. They're not saying the numbers in their head. It's kind of an intuitive way of putting together a picture of their murky wor old.
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