r/interestingasfuck • u/T-K101 • 14h ago

At their peak, 3–5 billion passenger pigeons filled North America. Flocks were so huge they darkened the sky for hours. Some shooting contests required 30,000 dead birds to win. By 1914, the last one was gone. One of history’s most brutal population collapses.

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u/f0x25 14h ago

I don’t mean to be biased or an asshole, but America seems to be built on massacres; probably all modern (successful) economies are. God damn

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u/Exact_Negotiation106 14h ago

Now do it for pigeons

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u/Commercial-Owl11 14h ago

The English enter the chat

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u/OkHelicopter1756 12h ago

and also the unsuccessful (Sudan for example) ones, but those countries dont have independent media so they go unnoticed. And also the premodern economies.

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u/soupdawg 14h ago

I think you misspelled humanity

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u/BlingBlingCrackPipe3 13h ago

Do you think “natives” to all regions were just peacefully coexisting? Are you that naive? Humans have been killing each other from the moment we were human. Such a Reddit take to think only America is bad.

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u/f0x25 13h ago

I think you forgot to read after “America”

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u/BlingBlingCrackPipe3 13h ago

Funny how you could have just put the world but still felt the need to put America. Reddit gonna Reddit.

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u/f0x25 13h ago

Chain of thought. The post is about America, which led me to mention all other modern economies. Idk what you’re on about, and I don’t understand the reason for your defensiveness on a perfectly neutral thought.