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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

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] 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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] 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, same lol

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