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People built canoes before they invented the wheel

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Humans figured out how to cowardly float away from their problems long before they figured out how to roll. Archaeological evidence of dug-out canoes used for ferrying people across rivers dates back nearly 10,000 years, predating the Mesopotamian invention of the chariot wheel by several millennia.

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