‘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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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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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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By peeing in the shower, you can save 1,157 gallons of water a year.
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