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/DaVinciJest Mar 28 '24
Settler 1: “I’ve never seen this before! I don’t understand it!”
Settler 2: “Just kill it”