- Trovants - rocks in romania that can grow rock babies, made out of calcium carbonate. It absorbs rain, rock is very porous, which creates a strong pressure until it grows out a rock baby. But these rocks can only expand by an inch(inches?) every 1000 years.
- Tulip mania in the 1630s - the dutch loved (still loves as well) tulips and used it as a marker of your affluence - to the point that each bulb could cost up to $25(0?)k ~ 1 mil dollars in modern currency. Was an economic bubble: an economic bubble occurs any time that the price of a good rises far above the item's real value. Loads of low-middle class people sold off their assets to invest in tulips to sell at a higher price
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