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What's the Deal With Poland's "Crooked Forest"?

Some forests hold more than just natural beauty — they are home to mysteries and geological oddities that scientists are still pondering.

One such place is Krzywy Las, the "Crooked Forest" of Poland, home to nearly 400 pine trees with trunks bent at bizarre angles. And even more strangely, every single one of them points north. Scientists still aren't sure what causes the phenomenon in Krzywy Las, but several theories have attempted to explain it. Some believe that particularly heavy snowfall weighed the trees down one season, though that hardly accounts for the uniformity of each and every trunk pointing in the same direction. Others have suggested that farmers are responsible, as they believed the unique curvature of the trunks would make these pines better suited to furniture and shipbuilding, but no one is sure exactly what technique might have been employed to produce such an effect.

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