stackyFACTSSomeone looked at a running horse and decided it would be brilliant to hold onto a rope and get dragged behind it on two slick boards. It is essentially water skiing, just infinitely more chaotic and covered in snow.
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Through millions of years of severe evolution, equines lost their side digits and now gallop entirely on an oversized central nail. Riding one basically means…
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Because humans arbitrarily decided centuries ago to only climb on from the left, doing it from the wrong side totally freaks the animal out. It is a rigid,…
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Under many international traffic and penal codes, you can absolutely be arrested and charged with a DUI for aggressively riding a horse while heavily…
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Because their eyes are on the sides of their head, they cannot see anything directly in front of their own nose. You are essentially trusting your life to a…
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They do not just clumsily throw their hooves forward; they step in a precise, staggered order. It makes for an incredibly smooth ride, assuming the animal…
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Sitting bareback on an equine spine is profoundly painful for both parties involved. By inventing a solid wooden tree wrapped in thick hides, humans finally…
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