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• [Plants fact 1] Americans in Germany frequently get into trouble because they mow their lawns on Sundays and holidays, which is a punishable offense in Germany. German law forbids making excessive noise on Sundays and holidays, as well as from 10 PM to 7 AM on weekdays.

  People, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 2] The name 'orchid' is derived from the greek word for 'testicle.'

  Language, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 3] Mandrake, a root of a plant that sometimes resembles a human has long been steeped in the occult and medieval lore. The root was believed to bear hallucinogenic and narcotic properties and was used in the treatment of headaches, earaches, gout, and insanity to name a few.

  Fiction, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 4] In 1982, a man named Clay Thompson died while vandalizing a saguaro cactus for fun. He shot the cactus repetitively and then went up to poke it to try to get it to fall over. Instead, the 500-pound saguaro arm fell and killed him.

  Death, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 5] Manchester University ran "Turing's Sunflowers", a community project to finish Alan Turing's work on plant morphology

  Plantssource

• [Plants fact 6] 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.

  Places, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 7] Fairy rings, i.e. mushrooms growing in a circle, are an actual natural occurrence, caused by mushroom mycelia growing out from the center and exhausting nutrients on the inside of the circle.

  Misc, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 8] When applied directly to the eye, the Bëcchëte medicinal plant is reported by tribes to have the effect of giving the environment greater texture and dimension, making it easier to spot animals during hunting. The effects are reported to be long-term, lasting days or weeks, not just a few hours.

  Misc, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 9] Isolating a female cannabis plant from a male can increase production of buds (richest THC source) as the female increases her efforts to attract pollen from the male plant.

  Drugs, Plantssource

• [Plants fact 10] During the Middle Ages, saffron was so expensive some traders would try to increase their profits by bulking up the herb with yellow marigold petals. When authorities in Nuremberg, where the herb was mainly traded, found out about these tainted parcels of saffron, the traders were burned alive.

  History, Plantssource

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