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    andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

    This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

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    This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

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    andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago
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      Do you have a source for that date? Those cars in the background don’t look like anything that would’ve existed in 1886. In fact the first car put into production was patented in 1886 and it looked like this:

      Black and white image of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early three-wheeled automobile

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        Oops, you’re absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo. Fixed. Pretty funny that that you can have a photo decades later than you thought and you can’t tell by the animal in it, but by the technology in the background!

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          Heh. I just spent half a minute squinting the dark trees in the background, looking for the outline of a car. I didn’t realise the picture was swapped.

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            Yeah, same lol

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            me too. I thought i was more blind than the tortoise in question lol.

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          That is definitely funny. I was just thinking, “How many fads and fashions has this one tortoise seen in his life?”

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            Older than the association of the color pink with girls, and blue with boys.

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            He’s been around humans long enough to see to see, what, 6 or 7 generations?

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