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TIL the pyramids are closer in time to stegosaurus than we are (infosec.pub)
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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So hang on... It's traditionally poisonous to faeries in folk tales, it heralds the death of stars because it's non-fissionable, and it also rapidly created a society that could end the world in a single day?

Iron has some explaining to do.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

iron is just chill like that tbh…

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh the irony

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

One for the ages