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		greenonions on July 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pn... I always imagined that early humans had fun rolling big rocks or logs down hills (who wouldn't?) and someone got clever.

RC_ITR on July 31, 2022 [–]

Maybe!

But our current findings imply that the wheel and axel were invented for pottery turning and someone eventually got the cart thing going sometime after that.

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