‘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 chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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