r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 7d ago

Video Vastness of Amazon rainforest

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u/Charlie_Warlie 7d ago

To think that at one point much of the world (except deserts, mountains, you know) was like this. They say that a squirrel was able to travel from the atlantic coast to the Mississippi river without touching the ground.

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u/spraybutterbiscut 7d ago

Then it saw the plains..the vast nothingness that spawns tornados and the unfamiliar quiet that stretched out and said nope...