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How Wind Works

Stuff You Should Know

Is It Just That Wind, and It's Stacking Up There?

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The planet tilts a little bit when it gets too piled up on one side of lake erie, does it really? I don't think so. Maybe, but probably not in any way we're equipped to detect. A bunch of plants have evolved to disperse their seeds by hitching aright on the wind. What are those whirligigs, the helicopters? What? What tree is that? Are they? Mapis doo that?

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