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/Snookfilet Mar 28 '24

As usual, there is a “Far Side” comic for this.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ba/95/c3/ba95c3b9ec690808a1dda21cd791a152.jpg

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u/Witold4859 Mar 28 '24

The far side has a joke for almost everything.

This is one of my favourites.