• bfg9k@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    195 years ago: ‘we should put a lead-lined box in here with nothing in it to fuck with people in the future’

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      Some guy wanted to put something valuable in it and was unwittingly robbed. Simplest explanation.

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]OP
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      1 year ago

      At least they had the right idea about who deserved far worse than this prank even in 1828 (the year the infamous Andrew Jackson would be elected)