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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here he is (on the left) ca. 1886 at around 50 years old:

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months 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

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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!

[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, same lol

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

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