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mycroftrh:

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thoodleoo:

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when you think about it tho pliny the elder is kind of the funniest guy in the world like. he wrote all these books about natural history that he was wrong about where he confidently claims things like\u00a0\u201csome animals only have blood during certain parts of the year\u201d and then when mt. vesuvius erupted and destroyed pompeii and herculaneum he said\u00a0\u201coh mt vesuvius is exploding? let me go check it out\u201d and then he died

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the man was committed to science. he wasn\u2019t very good at it. but he was committed

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