Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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