‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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