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Look at those guys. This strange horticultural technique called Espalier aims to grow trees in a flat manner, which can end up increasing fruit yield, and maximizing or minimizing sunlight exposure. Tinker around with that sunlight exposure, and you're actually able to capitalize on more fruitful growing seasons. With all the benefits of Espalier having been noted, there's no getting around the fact that it does look like a real life take on the infamous video game, Terraria. 

Check out some more weird tree lore with this Tumblr thread about how trees are low key monsters.

People are full of surprises. You might think that you know someone, and then a few months after you've officially started dating, they end up breaking up with you because you're "not in their league." Yes, that's a response in this wild AskReddit thread about bizarre breakups. Maybe this whole thread will just leave you feeling more jaded and discouraged in pursuing romantic exploits, than ever before. Or, maybe you'll keep trucking on with a heroic stubborn fortitude to find that one. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the weirdest moments in people's lives that they still can't explain. It could be something so strange it seems like a literal glitch in the matrix. Or, maybe it's some sort of near death experience that truly defied the odds. This life is brimming with mysteries, and sometimes the universe humbles us, reminding us that we really don't know a whole lot about this whole existence thing. 

There's something just plain old spooky about discovering a hidden staircase or suspect deadbolt that someone at some point in history went out of their way to hide from everyone. In this case, we're encouraged by the fact that those scratch marks apparently indicate this was likely some tomfoolery. For some more gold from the world of Tumblr, check out this Tumblr post about how spiders rule the world's cranberry bogs.

With a little bit of creative re-branding and some hot glue, people can turn their dumb junk into bizarre treasures that they try selling online. Are anyone of these goods and services good or serviceable? Usually not, but they are weird and bad and they're for sale.

If your goal is to make people think you're a completely hopeless social outcast, just bombard them with facts about necropants and how much skin you can bake into a cake! Why not? On the off-chance someone is interested by your freaky knowledge, that person is either awesome or should be avoided. Here are some more useless facts and some not-so-fun facts to feel bad about.

Seeing a marriage counselor isn't a bad idea, and people's reasons for it may seem strange and small, but really often it's a "straw that breaks the camel's back" kind of situation. So you end up with junk like "we're here today because he slurps his soup weird." At the same time, people are just strange. Here are some ridiculous reasons people wanted a divorce.

The internet has a bunch of funny stuff floating around it, a decent amount of wholesome stuff, but what it really has a crap-ton of is bizarre junk. There is no shortage of weird stuff from the crevices of the internet, from trippy images to strange goings-ons. It could be a cat at a weird angle, or it could be a goose getting arrested.

Sometimes there's no logical explanation for what someone is trying to sell online. It could be something they made from old shopping carts, or "liberated" from a McDonald's parking lot. There's just tons of dumb junk people try selling online. These bizarre treasures are rarely useful or even clean, but man they're interesting.

We all had some weird and backwards beliefs as kids. Some of us got tricked into "playing" video games on unplugged controllers. Some of us tried to hide behind see-though drapes. It's good that we learn from there, but it never undoes the stupid things kids do. Life gives us many moments of kids being stupid and weird. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about truck stop and interstate employees' most bizarre stories from their days on the job. It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that those long, winding, dark roads are filled to the brim with all kinds of unexpected characters. Truck stop employees can really be put through the rounder. As will happen in these kinds of threads, we've got plenty of accounts from people that didn't work at truck stops, but were just passing through. That story about the mayfly hatch madness is something else. 

You can never be too sure what kind of dumb junk people will try to sell online. It could be a morbid art project or completely obsolete item that's been re-branded as "memorabilia." Either way, it doesn't seem like too many of these folks are gonna get a response to their offer.

We grew up Antiques Roadshow, and we've gotta tell you there's something so nice about watching an old lady find out that her old mop is actually George Washington's priceless wig. KeatonPatti re-captioned a bunch of antiques roadshow antiques that kind of make sense in a hilariously bizarre and absurdist way.

This guy absolutely dodged a bullet. Seriously, there's a tireless energy to this storm of texts that are basically just a collection of red flags. One look at any of these texts is enough to nope out for good. 

Someone on AskReddit got a fun thread going about the strangest stuff people ever did for money. Money drives people to do some truly bizarre stuff. 

Ah, yes, this fun and quick Tumblr thread takes a quick look at liminal spaces. You might relate to how they're described as feeling.