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How farmers draw corn mazes without high-tech tools

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Wandering aimlessly through a freezing field is the result of painstaking agricultural mathematics. Before high-tech tools existed, farmers would painstakingly map out intricate designs on graph paper, plant the entire field tight, and then manually rip up specific stalks while the plants were still knee-high to create those maddening dead ends.

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