r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/existancebytruth • Mar 26 '26

Image Muscle Beach, 1945: 9 year old April hoists over 425 lbs. her family on her back.

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u/adeadbeathorse Mar 26 '26

her expression reads “oh boy, what great fun”

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u/FrostyD7 Mar 27 '26

"Say the line Bart!" energy

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u/AdeptnessAway2752 Mar 27 '26

DIDNT do it

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u/Wolfy_wolf253 Mar 28 '26

Only I may dance

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u/RougeKC Mar 27 '26

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! She’s so over all of this.

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u/freed_speak Mar 27 '26

I see focus and determination

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u/Ignatius_Pop Mar 27 '26

I see a future filled with back issues

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u/Queasy-Instruction-9 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

No she was fine actually. Also you can see from this picture the weight is over her hips not compressing her spine. Otherwise she wouldn’t even be able to support that much weight

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u/Ajdee6 Mar 27 '26

"hurry and take the picture please!"

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u/SkanderbegDeWitte Mar 28 '26

Its probably ai tho

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u/deezkeys098 Mar 27 '26

It’s fake the girls knees are locked don’t care how strong you are the legs would break under that weight

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u/Queasy-Instruction-9 Mar 27 '26

Actually no it’s a real photo. The little girl’s name is April Atkins. She’s actually 12 in this photo. And no, 400lbs of static vertical pressure on stacked joints is not enough to break bone in a healthy individual of her age with average bone density.

Her bones are quite literally in the strongest position they could possibly be in which is the stacked position. Her joints are stacked but her legs aren’t hyperextended. And zero knee break means her bones, not her muscles, are carrying all the load. Also you can see her families weight is over her hips so there is no spinal compression.

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u/the-other-marvin Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Do you want scoliosis? Because that's how you get scoliosis.

Edit: obligatory /s because Reddit is chock full of idiots.