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Here's an example of a so-called trees knee, that is, a living stump of a Douglas-fir that has healed over with bark and is kept alive via mycorrhizal fungal connections between its roots to the roots of living trees surrounding it, who send it nutrients to survive in this sort of zombie nub state

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On Venus, it snows metal. At the very top of Venus’s mountains, beneath the thick clouds, is a layer of snow. But since it’s so hot on Venus, snow as we know it can’t exist. Instead, the snow-capped mountains are capped with two types of metal: galena and bismuthinite.

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MacDermott's Castle is located on Castle Island, a small island in the southeast corner of Lough Key, Ireland. A castle stood on this island from the 12th century. In 1184, the Annals of Loch Ce report that a lightning bolt caused a fire and destroyed it. But it was rebuilt in 13th century.

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Just make it happen...

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Caesarea, the earliest known example to have used underwater Roman concrete technology on such a large scale. Not only is Roman concrete more durable than what we can make today, but it actually gets stronger over time. The Pantheon in Rome and the Pont du Gard aqueduct are made from Roman concrete.

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The Titanoboa - A 2,500-Pound, 50-foot long snake that devoured gigantic Crocodiles. 60 million years ago, in the swampy waters of what is now Colombia, there lurked a serpent that was 10 times as heavy as the average green anaconda, a giant that now rules Titanoboa's old stomping grounds.

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A heart-wrenching photograph showing elephants searching for food on top of a massive garbage dump has won the top prize in the Royal Society of Biology's photography competition.

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Meteora is the largest archaeological site of Greece in terms of the area that it covers. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1989 and an official holy place for Greece since 1995. Today, out of initially 24 monasteries that used to exist, only 6 remain active for people to visit.

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Vsauce warns...

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Speyer wine bottle - it's at least 1,650 years old. This dates back to the 4th century, sometime between 325 and 359 AD. The 1.5-liter glass vessel was discovered during the excavation of a Roman nobleman's tomb in modern-day Germany.

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Balmoral Castle - This legendary home, belonging to the Queen of England is estimated to be worth a staggering $140 million. Prince Philip Manages the Gardens personally and there's a statue of Queen Victoria's collie dog named Noble on the castle's grounds.

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Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author, hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars. It was found in 2020. Fenn wrote - The treasure has been found, I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot.

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Is it worth me looking in this area so early? I'm in the southeast of England and my elevation is between 185 and 253 meters. I know some livestock are kept in the surrounding paddocks. The field in question is isolated (for the south) and I've never checked there before. Is it worth the effort?

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Just going to leave this here...

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