Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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