<h2>Quick Fact: The World's Fastest Human (It Is Not What You Think)</h2>

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<h3>The World's Fastest Man</h3>

Who is the world's fastest man? 
You probably think that it is <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt">Usain Bolt</a>, but it is not really correct. He is not the fastest. Although, for a short moment he reached impressive record top speed of 45km/h, and beat the world record by finishing 100m track in 9.58 seconds. The fastest was a male called T8 who lived 20,000 years ago. His fossilized footprints <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/australias-20000-year-old-human-footprints.aspx">were discovered in 2003</a>, in <a href="http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/mungo-national-park">Mungo National Park</a> by a group of researchers from Bond University (Queensland, Australia). According to the analysis he ran with the speed of 37km/h. It is slower than Usain Bolt record but T8 was running barefoot in the mud, not on specially designed track while wearing trainers. Also, the analysis indicates that T8 was just accelerating and was likely to have an average athletic performance for humans of that time. Hunter-gatherers of that period had stronger physical build and much better athletic abilities than modern-day humans. Fitness abilities of humans have progressively decreased within thousands of years, after we had changed to more settled and sedentary style of living. T8's footprints were not the only ones discovered. There was of a group of people that traversed that area. The other footprints belonged to a family of five with a child and one-legged man who hopped with no crutch.

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[Footprints found in Mungo National Park. <a href="http://www.donsmaps.com/mungoprints.html">Picture Source</a>]


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References:

<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt">"Usain Bolt"</a>, Wikipedia article.

<a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/australias-20000-year-old-human-footprints.aspx">"Australia's 20,000-Year-Old Human Footprints"</a>, National Geographic.

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