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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Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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In Iceland, 100% of domestically produced electricity comes from renewable energy.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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