Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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In Czech Republic, women are entitled to up to 4 years of paid maternity leave, increasing to 7 years if the child is disabled.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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In Tunisia, you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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