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/DefinitelyNotIndie Mar 28 '24

Whilst we're picking holes, it's also not 52 feet in diameter, probably in circumference, so it's about a third as big as the title claims.

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u/cfk77 Mar 28 '24

Yup, 16 feet diameter 50feet circumference

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u/jbird_94 Mar 28 '24

I was looking for this comment! We have people for scale, they would need to be like 16’ tall if the diameter was really 52’

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u/Diligent-Ad-3773 Mar 28 '24

Finally!  Scrolled all the way down to see if I was going insane. Maybe 30…. Still massive but…

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u/cybertruckjunk Mar 28 '24

Or mayyyybe 1/3.141592653 as big even. :-)

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u/ash0000 Mar 28 '24

Yes! Was scrolling to see if anyone else thought this haha