Link is to Wikipedia article about the island thought to have been home to the last group of mammoths, which died out about 4,000 years ago.
So that’s how they moved all those big rocks
Nah, Jews
they even made a movie about it! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443649/
Man I just spent like an hour reading about the mammoths and it made me kinda sad.
The idea of being on an island and they just die before they can repopulate seems so sad. Imagine the last few must’ve known the end was nigh. I know elephants and cry and feel grief so I assume mammoths might too.
Good for em. Hope they took some good pictures for posterity
We know a lot more about when the mammoths died than we do about the construction of the pyramids.
It’s all the same story, I suspect. The mammoths worked themselves to death erecting one final magnificent series of works for us to enjoy, to memorialize themselves.
I’m a fan of trapezoidal construction theory myself.
While that is indeed a fun fact, this was repeat post on r/askreddit.
I mean at least OP didn’t just post a link to the Reddit post. I’ve seen some of that lately and well, I ditched Reddit for a reason. I downvote anything that links to any non-federated social media.
I didn’t even know there was a Reddit post. I encountered another fun fact about people who lived at the same time. Looked it up. Found a blog post of 20 crazy examples like that, including the mammoth thing. Thought, “that’s hard to believe.” Looked it up on Wikipedia. I’ll be damned. Shared it here.
I will ensure all future facts have never been mentioned on Reddit…? (jk but do you hear how you all sound? Jesus.)
You misunderstood or maybe I wasn’t clear. I had no issue with your post. It was a genuine TIL for me and I found it interesting. I saw the other comment and was just venting that I saw several posts today that linked directly to a Reddit post rather than the original source. Not a fan of that. But your post, solid. Thanks!
I understood! Sorry, my own defensive post was loosely worded. I never have the patience to figure out the @ thing, but I was referencing the other guy while responding to you.
Are you only allowed to post a link once or something?
There is posting a thing once, twice and then there is just endless karma farming…
If you didn’t learn anything from a TIL post, you can just keep scrolling. I didn’t know this fact and I was on Reddit for 6 years, until the API crap. Karma isn’t real; if you have a concern about the community’s quality, message a mod.
Honestly not where I learned it, if it makes you feel better!
