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• On the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, dodo birds lived under the calvaria tree. The tree’s seeds were unable to sprout until they had been ground down by the dodo’s digestive tract. The dodo had no natural enemies and therefore had developed no defenses. When men came accompanied by rats, dogs, and guns, the dodo died out in short order, and it looked like the calvaria tree was soon to follow. At one point there were only 13 of the trees left in the world, some of them more than 300 years old. Then a researcher fed the seeds to turkeys, whose gizzards did the job that the dodo used to do. The calvaria tree was saved from the dodo’s fate.

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● Those who study such things say that the typical raccoon weighs twice as much in September as it does in March, at the end of the long, lean winter. ● Standard Oil of Louisiana opened the first gasoline superstation in 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee. It offered 13 pumps and a maid who served ice water to customers. On opening day, a gallon of gas cost $0.29. ● You might be surprised to learn that Cirque du Soleil, the largest theatrical producer in the world, was founded by two street performers who never completed high school. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• George de Mestral and his dog went hunting in Switzerland one day in 1948. He became frustrated by the cockleburs that stuck to his clothing and his dog. At home, he looked at them under his microscope. They were covered with little hooks, which stuck to the loops of thread in his clothing like a thousand grasping hands. He wondered if he couldn’t imitate nature to develop a fastener that would work that well. It took him eight years of research to develop his own system of cocklebur fabric, which he named Velcro from the French word “velour” meaning “velvet” and “crochet” meaning “hook.” Ten years later, textile looms were turning out 60 million yards of Velcro every year. • Each cocklebur contains two seeds. One is programmed to germinate the next spring, and the other is programmed to germinate the second spring. This doubles the chances of encountering good growing conditions.

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