Got all pumped up finding a weird metal thing at a dig, turned out to be a pull tab from a soda can. Remember when those were everywhere? Now they're practically history. | Archaeology Discoveries

My car's floor mats are basically a museum of those things. I definitely got excited over a "silver coin" last year that was just a tab half-buried in a parking lot.

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quinng797mo ago

Funny how stuff like that just vanishes, like @taraw47 finding them in the floor mats. You see it with payphones or specific plastic toys too. Whole chunks of normal life just quietly retire.

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the_quinn7mo ago

Those tabs were the default litter everywhere for ages. Finding one now feels like uncovering a tiny artifact from a different world.

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