• @mykl
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    10 months ago

    We stayed in Sheerness (where this flight took place), and when my girlfriend saw this she immediately asked “Did pigs fly before women did?”. And the answer turned out to be no, women beat pigs by two weeks: “Sarah Van Deman … was the woman who flew with Wilbur Wright on October 27, 1909” source

    • @Bondrewd
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      410 months ago

      So women are a bit better than pigs.

  • @LemmyKnowsBest
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    1810 months ago

    “When pigs fly”

    I bet a lot of unprecedented things happened after that.

  • @misterundercoat
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    1210 months ago

    You can’t tell me that some medieval jerks never launched a pig with a catapult back in the day.

    • @grue
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      1210 months ago

      Ballistic trajectories don’t count as flying.