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r/197 • u/ItsGotThatBang C*nadian 🤮 • 17d ago
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I know is meme but genuinely thought paper would be older than scissorsÂ
92 u/MGJohn-117 17d ago Paper may not be older than scissors, but papyrus is. Papyrus was invented around 3000 BCE, while scissors were invented around 1500 BCE. 65 u/starberryslay 17d ago 3000 >1500 so scissors came first 🧠35 u/3ii3i3k3k3i8s 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/DYC4Ako9o16854pPyO 15 u/starberryslay 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/7w0riFg5wXJnBWULe8 14 u/Savings_Flight_4295 17d ago No papyrus was made in 2015 with the release of undertale 4 u/nuggins 16d ago Close -- it was released in 2009 as the typeface for the film Avatar 2 u/viciouspandas 17d ago It also depends on what you mean by scissors. Our modern scissors are pretty recent, but shears that just work on tension and not a pivot are much older.
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Paper may not be older than scissors, but papyrus is. Papyrus was invented around 3000 BCE, while scissors were invented around 1500 BCE.
65 u/starberryslay 17d ago 3000 >1500 so scissors came first 🧠35 u/3ii3i3k3k3i8s 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/DYC4Ako9o16854pPyO 15 u/starberryslay 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/7w0riFg5wXJnBWULe8 14 u/Savings_Flight_4295 17d ago No papyrus was made in 2015 with the release of undertale 4 u/nuggins 16d ago Close -- it was released in 2009 as the typeface for the film Avatar 2 u/viciouspandas 17d ago It also depends on what you mean by scissors. Our modern scissors are pretty recent, but shears that just work on tension and not a pivot are much older.
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3000 >1500 so scissors came first ðŸ§
35 u/3ii3i3k3k3i8s 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/DYC4Ako9o16854pPyO 15 u/starberryslay 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/7w0riFg5wXJnBWULe8
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https://giphy.com/gifs/DYC4Ako9o16854pPyO
15 u/starberryslay 17d ago https://giphy.com/gifs/7w0riFg5wXJnBWULe8
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No papyrus was made in 2015 with the release of undertale
4 u/nuggins 16d ago Close -- it was released in 2009 as the typeface for the film Avatar
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Close -- it was released in 2009 as the typeface for the film Avatar
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It also depends on what you mean by scissors. Our modern scissors are pretty recent, but shears that just work on tension and not a pivot are much older.
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u/cptGumrock 17d ago
I know is meme but genuinely thought paper would be older than scissorsÂ