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moss
  • Moss patches can make its own soil from particles in the environment
  • Reindeers eat moss because it contains a chemical that keeps their blood warm. Much like the anti-freeze in your car
  • During summer, moss can reduce its metabolism to almost zero in order to survive
  • Moss can grow in temperatures just above zero degrees
  • Moss cannot survive in a polluted environment
  • It is not true that moss only grows on the north side of trees. In fact, they will grow anywhere that has moisture and sunlight
  • Mosses have sperm that needs water in order to swim to the egg

Redwood
  • The bark of a redwood tree is fire resistant
  • No insect can kill a redwood tree
  • A redwood tree can live for 2000 years
  • A redwood tree ‘holds on’ to other tree roots in order to stand so tall.

tissue paper
  • In China, the first tissue paper were thin pieces of wood and bamboo

tree
  • A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows
  • The world’s fastest growing tree is the Australian Eucalyptus. It can grow up to 10 metres in one year
  • More than a million trees are planted each year by squirrels that bury nuts and do not end up eating them
  • You can tell the age of a tree by counting the number of rings formed within its trunk

plants
  • The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze

orchid
  • Orchids are grown from seeds so small that it would take 30,000 seeds to weigh as much as one grain of wheat

Da Vinci, Leonardo
  • Leonardo Da Vinci could also draw with one hand and write with the other
  • He ALSO wrote his notes backwards, going from right to left, just as a mental exercise.Thanx De Composed
  • He was the first to record that the number of rings in the tree trunk revealed its age and that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture

coconut
  • The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!

coffee
  • Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood. Seriously, don’t try this. Its so crazy it might just be true
  • A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.

bamboo
  • Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day