Sunflowers

Sunflowers React to the Sun

Sunflowers

Sunflowers enjoy the sunshine. Even their name implies it. Sunflowers track the sun when they are young and face the east when they are mature plants, but that is not all.

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Vikings did not wear horned helmets.

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