stackyFACTSNature makes round fruit, but humans demand right angles. Elite gardeners eventually figured out that if they strapped heavy glass or wooden boxes around growing melons, the fruit would be painfully compressed into perfect squares. Why? Simply because stacking round things in a cart was considered too much of a hassle.
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