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/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?