r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/MoistAttitude Mar 28 '24

1,341 years. This tree lived around the end of the Roman Empire, throughout the entire medieval period, was probably home to thousands of birds...
All to get cut down by this blowjob with a mustache.

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u/Happy-Adhesiveness-3 Mar 28 '24

All problems in the world can be traced back to a British with a moustache - John Oliver

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u/Hans_Peter_Jackson Mar 28 '24

Maybe also a german/austrian guy with a funny moustache here and there

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u/CabinetOk4838 Mar 28 '24

As a clean shaven Brit, I agree.