Cigar box juggling

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Although it looks like a video trick, watch carefully. It’s called cigar box juggling and began as a vaudeville act in the U.S. between the 1880’s and 1920’s. Popularized by W.C. Fields, cigar box juggling performers would take actual boxes that cigars were stored in and nail them shut to create their juggling props. Today,…

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A magnificent collection of weird and wonderful trees

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Arbol del Tule located in the town center of Santa Maria del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Believed to have the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world. DNA tests revealed that it is indeed a single tree. The Boab Prison Tree in Australia was used in the 1890’s to lockup prisoners…

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