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The Crooked Forest in Poland features trees that grow with a sharp ninety-degree bend at their base.

Why it is true

About four hundred pine trees in this region grow with this strange shape, likely due to human cultivation techniques or a heavy snowstorm when the trees were young, although the exact cause remains a mystery.

Source: Botany

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