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The first pig to fly. 1909. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

So women are a bit better than pigs.