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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer

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TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Oh boy do I have a book for you all. Elephants on Acid So they took acid then gave the elephant acid. When it freaked out they electrocuted it.

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      Do you know about Mary the elephant who was sentenced to death by hanging? I lived in both the towns involved in that.

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        What the hell do folk have against elephants!!!

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          2 months ago

          Trunk envy

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            It ain’t the trunk I’m envious of.

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              For me personally it’s the sense of Community and moon worshipping. That and the ears.

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