AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.English
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3 months agoBut… weren’t javelins originally designed to be dangerous?
Yeah… but it might have been a good tactic for the really shitty javelin-throwers, so they could make up in range what they lacked in accuracy.