Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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