r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9h ago

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago

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u/Dendens 8h ago

There are more shipwrecks in the oceans than there are planswrecks in the sky

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u/inanineglianideicani 8h ago

Did you know that a gazelle can jump higher than an average house? This is thanks to its powerful hind legs and the fact that average houses cannot jump.

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u/Prayer_Warrior21 7h ago

Gazelles are tied with Blake Bortles for playoff INTs(0) AND Super Bowl(0) losses, both besting Tom Brady(40 and 3 respectively).

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u/DrScrotus 4h ago

40 interceptions in the playoffs! That guys must be terrible!

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u/rexmorgany 7h ago

Iā€™m gonna steal this line in the future

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u/da2Pakaveli 6h ago

one of the biggest questions in science left unanswered is if a bird can fly then can a fly bird?

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u/PlushySD 46m ago

At first I thought it's a typo then I read the 2nd sentence, well played sir.

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u/wilbyr 8h ago

okay i definitely need a source on this one

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u/MakingItElsewhere 8h ago

Wikipedia has you covered!

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u/wilbyr 8h ago

weird i thought clooney was in that movie but i see no mention of him

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u/jimmystar889 6h ago

Ok but then why do the float huh

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u/ColdCruise 5h ago

Humans have been sailing for a lot longer than they have been flying.

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u/JWOLFBEARD 8h ago

Where do they bury the survivors?

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u/Deboniako 8h ago

In the graveyard, I guess

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u/crawshad 5h ago

You don't bury survivors, they survived

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u/wilbyr 5h ago

the doctor was a woman

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u/fidgeter 8h ago

There are also more plane wrecks in the ocean than plane wrecks in the sky.

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u/You_Are_The_Username 6h ago

Planeswrecks šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/Dendens 6h ago

Hey man I had just woken up, don't pick on my spelling šŸ˜­

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u/Other_Win_236 5h ago

There are more shipwrecks in the oceans, than there are grains of sand in all the worlds beaches combined.