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lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Subject : Facts about Trees.. Manchineel trees, found in Florida, are often considered the most poisonous trees in the world. Their fruits can kill you and even if you just stand beneath it while it is raining you will probably get some nasty blisters Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:05:27 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Hawaii has eucalyptus trees with rainbow bark! Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:05:52 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Since the 1980s, every Chinese citizen over the age of 11 has been legally mandated to plant at least 3 trees every single year Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:07:39 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Columbia University has developed a tree that is 1,000 times more effective at absorbing CO2 than a regular tree Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:08:56 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Manchineel trees, found in Florida, are often considered the most poisonous trees in the world. Their fruits can kill you and even if you just stand beneath it while it is raining you will probably get some nasty blisters Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:10:19 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Columbia University has developed a tree that is 1,000 times more effective at absorbing CO2 than a regular tree Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:11:43 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	The US has more trees now than it has ever had in the past 100 years. This is because starting in the 1940s deforestation rates have been lower than forest growth rates. Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:13:20 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	California is home to some of the world's oldest trees. Some of them are more than 5,000 years old! Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:14:48 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	On the island of Tana Toraja in Indonesia, if a baby dies the villagers will cut a hole into a tree, lay the baby inside, and let the tree grow back around it. Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:16:18 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Over 1000 years ago, the islands of Venice were built on trees, but because the trees are submerged they do not rot. In fact, minerals in the water have been gradually calcifying them into stone Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:17:51 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Nearly 96% of ancient redwood trees have been cut down. These trees are among the oldest and tallest trees left on Earth. Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:18:53 PM

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Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to note that all of a tree's branches put together would equal the thickness of the tree's trunk. Modern science is trying to show why this is true (for the most part)
During the 1930s, Nazis planted a tree shaped swastika that was only discovered in 1992 during an aerial survey. Residents promptly cut down the trees (swastikas are illegal in Germany)

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Posted on February, 06 2016 12:20:09 PM

lescol Age: 36 3940 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Sandbox trees are covered in poisonous spikes and can shoot their fruits at over 250km! Sandbox trees are covered in poisonous spikes and can shoot their fruits at over 250km! Like no likes.
	Posted on February, 06 2016 12:21:19 PM

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