‘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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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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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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