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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TIL scissors were invented before paper!

Clearly due to a time-travelling inventor.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would think rudimentary scissors came from shears to cut wool or hair.

In order to get practical paper, youd need the process of cutting wood to a T, which likely would have created scissors before hand if cutting has evolved to that point already.