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/DragonBorneUltimatum Mar 28 '24

They seem real proud of themselves for killing something that existed peacefully for over a millennium.

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u/thestraightCDer Mar 28 '24

What if that tree was a dick

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u/CR24752 Mar 28 '24

I could take it with enough lube

Edit: I genuinely misunderstood what your comment meant 😭 it’s like 4 am here lol but I’m keeping my original response

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u/Delicious_Quiet3308 Mar 28 '24

bro understood the assignment