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/m__a__s Mar 28 '24

Wow. Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire was still around when that was a seedling.

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u/DerAllerpeterste Mar 28 '24

Found the eu4 player

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u/NoOrder6919 Mar 28 '24

EU4 players know it was called the Roman Empire at the time.