stackyFACTSNothing screams efficiency quite like saddling up a reptile that will outlive your grandchildren. Eccentric Victorians and famous naturalists occasionally rode these massive creatures just to prove it could be done, resulting in the most agonizingly sluggish mode of personal transit ever documented.
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