These Bizarre Phenomenons Prove That Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

The Vertical Forest

It may look like a futuristic art installation, but Milan's Obsco Verticale is absolutely real. Built in 2014, these twin highrises contain almost 500 medium and large trees, 300 small trees, 5,000 shrubs, and 11,000 plants—but that's not all. If you feel like getting some fresh air, the Obsco Verticale, or vertical forest, includes over 100 residential apartments.

The More You Know

The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
The largest volcano in the solar system is three times taller than Mount Everest.
A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.