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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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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samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Oops, you’re absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo, Fixed.

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- blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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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  - aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    me too. I thought i was more blind than the tortoise in question lol.
    
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  - princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, same lol
    
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- Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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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  - andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Older than the association of the color pink with girls, and blue with boys.
    
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  - samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    He’s been around humans long enough to see to see, what, 6 or 7 generations come and go?
    
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