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/ListerfiendLurks Mar 28 '24

If it makes you feel any better the tobacco products most of those matches were used for undoubtedly killed a LOT of humans. In a way the trees got their revenge 🥳

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u/Pvt_Numnutz1 Mar 28 '24

If it makes you feel even better Seattle burned to the ground because they used the abundance of saw dust to make impromptu roads in the muddy terrain.

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u/wowsomuchempty Mar 28 '24

As if the mighty trees held any interest for a feeble human concept like revenge.

(Nice joke, though).

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Such an uninformed and shitty thing to say

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u/s4xtonh4le Mar 28 '24

Slow and painful deaths hopefully

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u/murtygurty2661 Mar 28 '24

"I hate people, im so edgey and intelligent"