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• [Plants fact 1]  Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster. They are known as hyperaccumulators because they are capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima to aid in soil restoration.

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• [Plants fact 2]  Bats often use pitcher plants as a toilet and plant are also benefited by it. Some species of bats take a nap and a dump inside a pitcher plant and the pitcher plant gets nutrients from the feces.

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• [Plants fact 3]  In 1982, a man named David Grundman who was shooting at cacti with his shotgun near Lake Pleasant, Arizona, was crushed when a 4 foot (1.2 meters) limb of the cactus detached and fell on him.

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• [Plants fact 4]  All of the vanilla produced in today’s world is pollinated by hand utilizing a technique developed by an enslaved boy back in 1841.

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• [Plants fact 5]  350 million years ago, there existed a species of 20-foot tall mushroom in Saudi Arabia. It was likely the largest living thing on dry land at that time.

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• [Plants fact 6]  Aluminum Christmas trees dropped in popularity after their negative portrayal in A Charlie Brown Christmas

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• [Plants fact 7]  There is a plant that is able to simultaneously produce both tomatoes and potatoes, cleverly named the "Ketchup 'n' Fries" plant.

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• [Plants fact 8]  There was a solitary tree in the Sahara Desert, keeping itself alive by a 110-feet deep root system, until a drunk driver managed to ram his truck into it.

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• [Plants fact 9]  In 2009, a fruit grower named Ken Morrish in the UK was left stunned when he found an apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle. The fruit's striking coloring is thought to be caused by a random genetic mutation at odds of more than a million to one.

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• [Plants fact 10]  The modern Christmas tree originated in western Germany. They combined the Adam and Eve idea of the “paradise tree" with various Christ symbols (like candles, figurines, and stars). By the 16th century, the Christmas pyramid and the paradise tree had merged, becoming the Christmas tree.

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