• Polysics@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Just in case you weren’t aware, that Futurama episode was loosely based on a real life dog that waited for his master at the train station every day for years after the humans death

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachikō?wprov=sfla1

    They are too good for us and we don’t deserve them, but I’m glad we have them in our lives.

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      3 months ago

      Didn’t even need to look at the link to know it was Hachiko!

      I’ve been to Shibuya station and seen (and pet) Hachiko (the statue) a few times, always a weirdly melancholic experience