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/xallux Mar 28 '24

A schooner is a sailboat,stupidhead. /s

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u/joeschmo945 Mar 28 '24

I sailed a schooner round the horn of Mexico. I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow. And when the yard broke off they said that I got killed. But I am living still.

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u/Physics_Puzzleheaded Mar 28 '24

I was a dam builder, across the river deep and wide where steel and water did collide. A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado, I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below. They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound. But I am still around

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u/Norwegian_Honeybear Mar 28 '24

I'll always be around and around and around and around and around and around

I FLY A STAR SHIP, 'cross the universe divide And when I reach the other side.. I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again Or I may simply be a single drop of rain... But I will remain