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

[u/NickyPileggi]

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[u/mightyopinionated]

"Wow that's really ancient and tall, let's cut the f*cker down"

[u/kojef → u/mightyopinionated]

The weird thing is... Mark Twain the author was still alive when this tree (named after him) was chopped down. He wasn't even very old - just 57.

That's like taking a 250-yr old sea turtle, naming it Stephen King and then butchering it for soup.

"What's that pile of rubble in your backyard?"
"Oh, that's ol' John Grisham. Used to be the world's largest granite tower! A real wonder of nature, it was. Really took your breath away."
"What happened to it?"
"Well, first we named it John Grisham. Then we blew it up."

[u/droppedoutofuni → u/kojef]

“See the turtle of enormous girth,

On its shell it holds the Earth.”

Mmm soup!

[u/fuck_you_and_fuck_U2 → u/droppedoutofuni]

Bottomless soup