• Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    When I was a kid I used to think Horseshoes were actual boots that you put on horses feet, and I didn’t see them on any horses in movies because the horses would fling them off at a gallop speed

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      1 day ago

      That’s an entertaining theory.

      I knew what they were because my dad had a horseshoe game set and I had seen something about hanging horseshoes so the luck didn’t fall out, but I didn’t know they were actually used with horses for an embarrassingly long time.