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In old cartoons (Looney tunes, Tom and Jerry, etc), should anything fall on a character, most of the time it's an anvil. Why the anvil specifically? Did the kids understand what it was despite blacksmith's being less and less common?

by /u/Sillvaro in /r/AskHistorians

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