When you drive towards the coast of Karnataka, India, and the highway gives way to narrower roads winding through paddy and crop fields, you will start to see coconut trees with upside-down hats. These hats are sturdy nets designed to save passersby from coconuts falling on top of their heads, but also to catch those coconuts before they fall to the gro…
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