stackyFACTSSolid wooden wheels were ridiculously heavy and painfully slow. The brilliant switch to carved wooden spokes meant carts suddenly became lightweight and highly maneuverable, turning lumbering wooden boxes into terrifyingly fast, unstable projectiles.
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