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[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The can opener was invented 30 years after the can.

[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well, wouldn't it be weird if it was the other way around?

"Yooo, check this out, I made a new invention, it's called a can opener!"
What does it do?
"idk"

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely you understand that the remarkable part is the duration between the inventions, not the chronological order.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Crazy amount of not understanding jokes in this thread.

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