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Im my case, we had a regrettable tendency to weaponise plant matter. I remember folding sand inside catalpa leaves to make "hand grenades" that could be thrown against a tree trunk, where they'd explode in a cloud of dust. 
 @fb2b7c61 Oh, that's fantastic. You would easily have overthrown our pine needle kingdom! 
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I would NEVER overthrow the pine needle kingdom. It's the last bastion of  freedom!