Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island

Link is to Wikipedia article about the island thought to have been home to the last group of mammoths, which died out about 4,000 years ago.

So that's how they moved all those big rocks

Man I just spent like an hour reading about the mammoths and it made me kinda sad.

The idea of being on an island and they just die before they can repopulate seems so sad. Imagine the last few must've known the end was nigh. I know elephants and cry and feel grief so I assume mammoths might too.

While that is indeed a fun fact, this was repeat post on r/askreddit.

I mean at least OP didn’t just post a link to the Reddit post. I’ve seen some of that lately and well, I ditched Reddit for a reason. I downvote anything that links to any non-federated social media.

Good for em. Hope they took some good pictures for posterity

We know a lot more about when the mammoths died than we do about the construction of the pyramids.

Honestly not where I learned it, if it makes you feel better!

There is posting a thing once, twice and then there is just endless karma farming..

It's all the same story, I suspect. The mammoths worked themselves to death erecting one final magnificent series of works for us to enjoy, to memorialize themselves.

I didn't even know there was a Reddit post. I encountered another fun fact about people who lived at the same time. Looked it up. Found a blog post of 20 crazy examples like that, including the mammoth thing. Thought, "that's hard to believe." Looked it up on Wikipedia. I'll be damned. Shared it here.

I will ensure all future facts have never been mentioned on Reddit...? (jk but do you hear how you all sound? Jesus.)

they even made a movie about it!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443649/

I'm a fan of trapezoidal construction theory myself.

You misunderstood or maybe I wasn't clear. I had no issue with your post. It was a genuine TIL for me and I found it interesting. I saw the other comment and was just venting that I saw several posts today that linked directly to a Reddit post rather than the original source. Not a fan of that. But your post, solid. Thanks!

Nah, Jews

I understood! Sorry, my own defensive post was loosely worded. I never have the patience to figure out the @ thing, but I was referencing the other guy while responding to you.

In Bratislava there is a Stone Age carving of a woman made out of a mammoth tusk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Moravany

The museum that it is in just has it in some random case with no label amongst other things, and the case is near impossible to find. Sad, really.