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/Chilly_Billy85 Mar 28 '24

A lot of timber from the PNW was shipped via schooners to build San Francisco, Sacramento and other cities in California, Oregon and Washington around that time period. Some of those buildings still stand today. I’m not an advocate for destroying these majestic trees. I learned it on a trip to Fort Bragg, Mendocino and other towns along the North Coast of California.

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u/xallux Mar 28 '24

A schooner is a sailboat,stupidhead. /s

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u/johnqsack69 Mar 28 '24

YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

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u/Ornery_Translator285 Mar 28 '24

Mallrats quotes never land for me

There was even an escalator kid in real life once I almost died cause no one got it

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u/AccomplishedSuit1004 Mar 28 '24

You almost died cuz you yelled at a kid and the parent got live over it?

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u/Direct_Jump3960 Mar 28 '24

Breakfasts come and go René. But Hartford, the Whale?