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Derek from Veritasium (with help from many of our YouTube friends, including Hank Green) reminds us that Trees Are Freaking Awesome! 

Of course, we already knew that. As Richard Feynman reminded us, they (sort of) grow out of the air, and they feed off of the Sun. That’s a pretty cool trick. But do you know how they grow so tall? I mean, how exactly do they get water all the way from the ground up to their leaves, which can be 30+ meters above the roots?

If you guessed physics, you’d be right … but you’ll be amazed by exactly how they do it. Mother Nature is certainly the finest engineer on Earth.

Source: youtube.com

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