Here are 10 tree-riffic facts about trees that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:
- Some states celebrate arbor day on a different date
- They do that because the last friday in April isnt an ideal time to plant everywhere
- Hawaii celebrates the first friday of November
- Alaska celebrates the third monday in May
- In 2019 2 youtuber teamed up and got 20,000,000 trees planted
- Mr. Beast and Mark Rober
- Mr. Beast posts random videos of himself giving away money, houses, and cars
- Sometimes as prizes for weird competitions
- Sometimes just because
- He gives away 10’s and 100’s of thousands in almost every video
- Mark Rober does science experiments the occasional prank and sometimes both
- He will test interesting theories, like “will people return a lost wallet”
- Why do pools smell like chlorine (its because of pee)
- And he even made a glitter bomb that pranked package thieves
- You can still donate and plant more trees at teamtrees.org
- They are up to almost 22,000,000 as of today
- Global forests remove about ⅓ of fossil fuels from the atmosphere
- These numbers come from tests done between 1990 and 2007
- Probably much less now since all the deforestation and wild fires going on
- One large tree can provide enough oxygen for 4 humans
- Thats daily
- Thats crazy
- Trees help reduce the effects of climate change
- They store and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen
- In a year an acre of trees offsets about 26,000 miles driven in an average car
- That's about 2 average driver’s worth of carbon dioxide thats offset
- The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872, in Nebraska.
- More than 1 Million Trees planted.
- Since then, the foundation has planted at least 250 million new trees.
- There are about three trillion trees on Earth?
- About 422 trees for every 1 person.
- There are two main types of trees, Deciduous and Evergreen.
- Deciduous trees include
- maple trees,
- elm trees,
- oak trees
- Evergreen trees have small needles
- America’s national tree is the Oak tree.
- 750 species of tree present in the US.
- 100,000 tree types in the world
- Staring at trees helps reduce stress.
- Visual exposure to settings with trees have been found to produce significant recovery from stress within five minutes.
- indicated by changes in blood pressure and muscle tension.